U+95E9 "闩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+95E9 "闩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logographic symbol used in written Chinese, where it is pronounced "shuān" in Mandarin. This character is composed of the "door" radical (門) combined with a component representing a bolt or bar, and its core meaning is "door bolt" or "latch," referring to a horizontal bar used to secure a door from the inside. In modern usage, it can also function as a verb meaning "to bolt" or "to lock," and it appears in Japanese kanji with similar meanings, though the form is simplified in Japanese as 閂. The character is categorized under the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block, which standardizes characters shared across East Asian writing systems.