U+71FB "燻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+71FB "燻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used in traditional Chinese and Japanese writing, where it carries the meaning of "to smoke" or "to fumigate," often in the context of curing food with smoke or applying smoke for preservation and flavoring. This character is composed of the "fire" radical (火) on the left, indicating its association with heat or burning, and a phonetic component on the right that suggests its pronunciation, which is "xūn" in Mandarin Chinese and "kun" in the on'yomi reading of Japanese. In practical usage, it appears in words related to smoking meat or fish, incense burning, or even metaphorical applications like "to smoke out" or "to suffuse with smoke," and it remains a relevant element in culinary and traditional contexts across East Asian cultures.