U+72E4 "狤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+72E4 "狤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character composed of the radical for dog or beast on the left and the phonetic component "吉" on the right, and it is generally considered a rare or obsolete character in modern standard Chinese. Its traditional meaning is associated with a type of dog or a fierce beast, as documented in classical Chinese dictionaries like the Kangxi Zidian, where it is defined as a mad or reckless dog. In contemporary usage, this character appears primarily in historical or specialized linguistic contexts, such as in transcriptions of ancient texts or in studies of archaic Chinese vocabulary, and it is not commonly encountered in everyday writing or communication.