U+84E4 "蓤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+84E4 "蓤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare or obsolete Chinese character that falls under the broad category of plants or vegetation, as indicated by its radical "艹" (grass radical). Its exact meaning varies depending on historical or dialectal context, but it is generally understood to refer to a type of aquatic plant, specifically the water chestnut or similar edible water plant, closely related to the more common character "菱" (líng). While seldom used in modern standard Chinese, it may appear in classical texts or specialized botanical references. This character is encoded in the CJK Unified Ideographs block of Unicode, representing a shared writing tradition across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages.