U+7898 "碘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+7898 "碘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily denotes the chemical element iodine. Composed of the radical for "stone" on the left and a phonetic component on the right, its literal meaning relates to a solid, dark purple, crystalline substance of mineral origin. In modern usage, it appears most frequently in scientific and medical contexts, such as in the word for "iodine" (碘酒) as a disinfectant, or in references to iodine deficiency in nutrition. This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block and is used in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese writing systems.