U+90C4 "郄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+90C4 "郄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character traditionally used as a surname and also functions as a variant of the character 郤, which can mean a crevice, a gap, or an interval. In historical contexts, it appears in classical texts and is connected to ancient place names and clan lineages. The character is composed of the radical 邑 (阝 on the right side, meaning town or city) and the phonetic component 谷, indicating a combination of semantic and phonetic elements typical of many CJK characters. Its usage in modern Chinese is rare, primarily limited to family names or specialized literary references.