U+78B8 "碸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+78B8 "碸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese kanji (Hanzi) character that belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block. It is composed of the radical "石" (stone) and the phonetic component "風" (wind), and its primary meaning is "sulfuric acid" or "alum," referring to a type of mineral salt. This character is used in traditional Chinese contexts, often in chemical or historical texts, and is considered a relatively rare ideogram in modern usage, with its Japanese equivalent being "磻" in some cases but not directly corresponding. The Unicode encoding allows consistent digital representation of this character across different platforms and software, preserving its graphical integrity as a stone-related logograph.