U+82D7 "苗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+82D7 "苗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily represents the concept of a seedling, sprout, or young plant, often used in agricultural contexts to denote the early growth stage of crops like rice or wheat. It is composed of the radical for grass or plant (艹) above a component that suggests a field or young growth, giving it a literal meaning of "sprout emerging from a field." Beyond its literal sense, this character is also used metaphorically in compounds such as "疫苗" (vaccine, literally "preventive seedling") and "苗条" (slender, like a young shoot), and it appears in personal names and place names across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages, where it retains its core association with youth, beginning, and vitality.