U+9102 "鄂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+9102 "鄂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that serves as a logogram in the written Chinese language, primarily functioning as a surname and as a geographical name. Historically, it is closely associated with the ancient state of E, located in the region of present-day Hubei Province, and it later became the abbreviated name for Hubei itself. The character is composed of the radical for "mouth" or "enclosure" on the left side, combined with a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its traditional classification as a phono-semantic compound. In modern usage, "鄂" appears in official contexts such as vehicle license plates from Hubei and in historical references to the area, though it is far less common in everyday vocabulary compared to more frequent characters.