U+96AD "隭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+96AD "隭" CJK Unified Ideograph is a rare Chinese character that appears in classical texts, where it is often used as a variant form of the character "柔" (róu), meaning soft, gentle, or flexible. Its structure combines the radical for "hill" or "mound" (阝 on the left) with a phonetic component related to "need" or "beard" (需 on the right), but its specific meaning is not well defined in modern standard Chinese, and it is most commonly encountered in historical literature or specialized dictionaries for ancient writing. The character is classified under Unicode's CJK Unified Ideographs block and is encoded for compatibility with older East Asian character sets, though it has very limited contemporary usage.