U+7D61 "絡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+7D61 "絡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character traditionally meaning "to connect," "to entangle," or "to enmesh," and is also used to refer to a net, web, or network, as in the concept of a "network" or "circuit." It is composed of the radical for silk (糸) on the left, symbolizing threads or fibers, and a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its pronunciation in Mandarin as "luò" or in Cantonese as "lok." This character appears frequently in compound words across East Asian languages, such as "聯絡" (liánluò, meaning "contact" or "communication") in Chinese, "回路" (kairo, meaning "circuit") in Japanese, and "네트워크" (neteuwokeu, meaning "network") in Korean, where it retains its core sense of binding or linking elements together. In the Unicode standard, it is classified under the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which encompasses glyphs shared by Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems for historical and digital consistency.