U+8B0C "謌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+8B0C "謌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character that historically functions as a variant form of the more common character 歌 (gē), meaning "song" or "to sing." It belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block and is composed of the radical 言 (yán, meaning "speech" or "words") on the left, combined with the phonetic component 哥 (gē, meaning "elder brother") on the right. In classical Chinese texts, 謌 appears primarily in poetic or literary contexts as an alternative orthography for 歌, though it is not used in modern standard Mandarin, Japanese, or Korean writing systems. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that historical documents and specialized linguistic studies can represent this archaic glyph accurately in digital text.