U+84DF "蓟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+84DF "蓟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character representing a type of thistle or the common cirsium plant, often used in botanical contexts and traditional Chinese medicine. It is also the simplified form of the character that appears in the name of the ancient Chinese state of Ji, located in what is now Beijing, and remains a component in modern place names such as Tianjin. The character is composed of the radical for grass, signifying its plant classification, and a phonetic component that provides its pronunciation in Mandarin as "jì".