U+804C "职" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+804C "职" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "duty," "job," "occupation," or "function," and it is widely used in modern Chinese, Japanese (as a shinjitai form of 職), and Korean contexts. It represents the simplified version of the traditional character 職, with its components hinting at the concepts of listening (耳, ear) and the action or sound associated with a role. This character frequently appears in compound words such as 职业 (zhíyè, profession) and 职位 (zhíwèi, position), reflecting its core semantic field of assigned tasks or responsibilities within a social or organizational structure.