U+83FA "菺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+83FA "菺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) used in traditional and simplified written Chinese, though it is considered a rare or obscure glyph with limited modern usage. Its primary meaning is associated with a type of plant, specifically referring to the calla lily (Zantedeschia) or a similar herb, and it can also denote a medicinal herb in classical texts. In appearance, the character combines the radical for grass or plant (艹, pronounced "cao") with a phonetic component indicating pronunciation, similar to "jian." Due to its infrequency in contemporary language, "菺" is most often encountered in specialized botanical contexts, historical literature, or as a technical term in East Asian languages like Japanese and Korean, where it is read as "ken" in on'yomi.