U+83E5 "菥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+83E5 "菥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that falls under the "CJK Unified Ideographs" block, representing a specific glyph used in written Chinese and other East Asian languages. Its primary meaning is "shepherd's purse" (a type of edible wild plant, also known as Capsella bursa-pastoris), and it appears in classical botanical and literary contexts as well as in modern usage for this herb. The character combines the "grass" radical (艹, indicating a plant) with the phonetic component 析, which hints at its pronunciation (approximately xī in Mandarin). Though not as common as more widely used characters, it remains an important part of the lexicon for traditional Chinese medicine, culinary references, and historical texts.