U+96D6 "雖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+96D6 "雖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that traditionally means "although," "even if," or "despite," and it is used across multiple East Asian languages, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it functions as a conjunction to introduce a concessive clause. In Chinese, it commonly appears in phrases like "雖然" (suīrán) meaning "although," and in Japanese it is read as "sui" in compounds or "iru" in certain native contexts, often carrying the same concessive sense. The character is composed of the radical 口 (mouth, enclosure) and the phonetic component 隹 (short-tailed bird), reflecting its ancient derivation from a pictographic element representing a bird in a state of hesitation or difficulty, which metaphorically evolved into its modern grammatical meaning.