U+72C8 "狈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+72C8 "狈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a type of small, wolf-like animal, often translated as a "jackal" or "dhole" in English, and it is commonly associated with the mythical creature known as the "fenghuang" or as a component in the word "langbei" (狼狈), which describes someone in a desperate or awkward predicament, akin to being caught in a tight spot. This character is part of the Kangxi radical 94 (犬 or 犭, meaning "dog") and is used in modern Chinese to form compounds that convey a sense of hardship or conspiring together in a negative context, such as in the idiom "狼狈为奸" meaning to collude in wrongdoing.