U+75E8 "痨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+75E8 "痨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character composed of the sickness radical (疒) over the phonetic component 劳, and it specifically refers to tuberculosis or a chronic, wasting disease, most notably pulmonary tuberculosis, often historically called consumption. In modern Chinese, it is used in terms like 肺痨 (fèiláo) for tuberculosis and 痨病 (láobìng) for any such consumptive illness, carrying a clinical and historical weight as a term for a severe infectious disease that was once a major cause of death. The character itself belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block and is encoded for use in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, where it represents both a specific medical condition and a broader concept of debilitating chronic illness.