U+7304 "猄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+7304 "猄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (Hanzi) that primarily denotes a mythological or archaic creature, often interpreted as a kind of magical or auspicious animal similar to a fox or a wolf in certain classical texts. It is used in historical literature, such as in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, where it appears as the name of a beast associated with mountain spirits or omens. This character is composed of the radical for dog or beast (犭) on the left and the phonetic component 京 (jīng) on the right, reflecting its logographic structure. In modern usage, it is rarely encountered outside of specialized contexts like ancient poetry or linguistic studies of archaic Chinese.