U+845A "葚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+845A "葚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) traditionally used to represent the mulberry fruit, specifically the mulberry, as in the compound "桑葚" (sāngshèn), which refers to the sweet, aggregate fruit of the mulberry tree. This ideograph is composed of the radical for grass or plant, suggesting its botanical connection, and a phonetic component. In classical and modern Chinese texts, it appears in contexts related to foraging, agriculture, and traditional medicine, where mulberries are valued for their nutritional and medicinal properties. The character is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block in Unicode, encoding a logogram shared across historical and contemporary usage in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean written languages.