U+82CA "苊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+82CA "苊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (Hanzi) that falls under the radical for grass or plant (艹) and is primarily used in the context of organic chemistry, where it denotes the chemical compound acenaphthene. In modern standard Mandarin, it is pronounced "è" and is part of a set of characters created or repurposed in the 20th century to precisely name hydrocarbon derivatives and other chemical substances. While not common in everyday Chinese writing, it plays a specific role in scientific and technical literature, particularly in chemistry textbooks and research papers.