U+75ED "痭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+75ED "痭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character that appears in the Kangxi Dictionary and other classical Chinese texts, where it is pronounced "bēng" or "péng" in modern Mandarin. Its meaning is associated with illness or swelling, specifically referring to a type of abdominal distention or a disease that causes swelling, often interpreted as dropsy or a morbid fullness in the body. This character combines the radical for sickness (疒 meaning illness) on the left with the phonetic component "朋" on the right, which hints at its pronunciation. Historically, "痭" appears in medical contexts in ancient Chinese pharmacopoeias and disease descriptions, but it is not commonly used in modern Chinese, making it a specialized glyph of interest to scholars of classical Chinese medicine and paleography.