U+7616 "瘖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+7616 "瘖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily denotes muteness or an inability to speak, often specifically referring to a medical or congenital condition of voicelessness. In classical and modern Chinese texts, it is used in contexts related to speech disorders, such as describing a person who is dumb or afflicted with laryngeal ailments that prevent vocalization. The character combines the radical for illness or disease with a phonetic component, reflecting its semantic link to physical impairment, and it appears in specialized vocabulary within traditional medicine and literature, though it is less common in everyday contemporary usage.