U+8165 "腥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+8165 "腥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "raw meat" or "fishy smell" and is often used to describe the strong, unpleasant odor associated with raw seafood, blood, or animal products. In compound words, it appears in terms like "腥味" (xīngwèi, meaning fishy smell) and "血腥" (xuèxīng, meaning bloodshed or a smell of blood). The character is composed of the radical "⺼" (meat or flesh) on the left, indicating its association with animal matter, and the phonetic component "星" (xīng, meaning star) on the right, which contributes to its pronunciation. This ideograph is widely used in modern Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it carries similar connotations related to odor or the rawness of organic substances.