U+7877 "硷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+7877 "硷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily serves as a simplified variant of the character 鹼, meaning alkali or base in the chemical sense. It is composed of the radical 石 (stone) on the left and the phonetic component 佥 on the right, reflecting its connection to mineral substances. In modern usage, it appears in terms related to chemistry, such as in the word for alkaline, and is distinguished from its traditional counterpart by a simplified stroke count. This character is encoded in the CJK Unified Ideographs block of the Unicode standard, allowing for digital representation across various systems and languages that use Chinese script.