U+823B "舻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+823B "舻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that also appears in Japanese kanji and occasionally in Korean hanja, representing the concept of the bow or prow of a ship or boat. It is composed of the radical for a boat or vessel (舟) on the left, which provides semantic context, and the phonetic component 卢 on the right, indicating its approximate sound as "lu" in Mandarin Chinese. In classical Chinese literature, "舻" often appears in compound words like "舳舻" (zhú lú), referring to the stern and bow of a ship, or metaphorically to an entire fleet or long line of vessels. This character is classified within the Unicode standard under the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which encompasses shared characters from East Asian writing systems, and it is used in modern contexts for maritime terminology, historical texts, and calligraphy.