U+7A77 "穷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+7A77 "穷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that traditionally means "poor," "exhausted," or "extreme," and it is composed of the radical for "cave" (穴) above the character for "power" or "strength" (力), symbolically suggesting a condition of being confined or reaching an end. In modern usage, it frequently appears in words like "贫穷" (poverty) and "无穷" (infinite), highlighting its dual connotations of material lack and conceptual limitlessness. The character is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, covering scripts used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages, and it carries significant cultural weight in East Asian literature and philosophy, often appearing in discussions of hardship, perseverance, and the boundless nature of certain phenomena.