U+8318 "茘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8318 "茘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in traditional and simplified writing systems, representing a rare or variant form of the character 荔, which commonly refers to the lychee fruit (Litchi chinensis) or the plant itself. It belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block and is composed of the "grass" radical (艹) atop a phonetic component, signifying its botanical association. In modern usage, this particular glyph is less frequent than its standard counterpart, but it appears in classical texts, calligraphy, and some regional typographic traditions, preserving an alternate orthographic history within East Asian scripts.