U+804B "聋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+804B "聋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character meaning "deaf" or "hard of hearing," used in both traditional and simplified forms of written Chinese. It is composed of a radical for "ear" on top and a phonetic component below, reflecting its semantic link to hearing loss. This character appears in words related to deafness, such as "聋子" meaning a deaf person, and it is also used in medical and metaphorical contexts, such as describing someone who is willfully ignorant or unresponsive. As part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, it shares a common encoding for digital text across East Asian languages.