U+8528 "蔨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8528 "蔨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character used in classical and historical texts, primarily as a variant form of the character 菌 (jùn or jūn), which can mean "mushroom" or "fungus," and in some contexts it also refers to a type of bamboo shoot or a kind of vegetable. This character is composed of the radical "艹" (grass radical) on top, indicating its plant-related meaning, and the phonetic component "卷" (juǎn) below, which provides a clue to its pronunciation in certain readings. Due to its infrequent use in modern Chinese, it is not commonly found in everyday vocabulary, but it remains part of the extended CJK Unified Ideographs block, used in specialized fields like philology, historical linguistics, or traditional Chinese medicine.