U+83D0 "菐" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+83D0 "菐" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is an East Asian ideograph used primarily in Classical Chinese and Japanese kanji, where it carries the meaning of a type of plant or herb, often associated with the botanical term for a shrub or a specific kind of tree bark. Its structure combines the grass radical (艹) with a phonetic component, reflecting its categorization as a pictophonetic character. In modern usage, this character is considered rare and is seldom encountered in everyday texts, appearing mostly in specialized historical or literary contexts, such as ancient Chinese dictionaries or poetic references. Its pronunciation varies by language, being read as "pú" in Mandarin Chinese and "fu" or "boku" in Japanese, depending on the compound.