U+7623 "瘣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+7623 "瘣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily refers to a type of illness or disease, often associated with a chronic or lingering ailment, and in classical contexts can denote a swelling or a condition of being emaciated or weak from sickness. It is composed of the radical "疒" (sickness) on the left, indicating its medical connotation, and the phonetic component "鬼" (ghost or spirit) on the right, which may have originally suggested a mysterious or supernatural cause of the malady. This character is used in traditional Chinese texts and remains part of the standard CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph repertoire, though it is relatively rare in modern everyday usage, appearing more frequently in historical or specialized medical literature.