U+975B "靛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+975B "靛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character representing the color indigo or the indigo plant from which the dye is derived. It is composed of the radical for "green" or "blue" (青) on the left and the phonetic component "定" on the right, reflecting its semantic association with deep blue hues and its pronunciation in Mandarin as "diàn." Historically, this character has been used in classical Chinese texts to describe the dye produced from plants like Indigofera, and in modern usage it appears in terms for indigo-colored objects, such as 靛蓝 (diànlán) for the color indigo itself. As part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, it facilitates written communication across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages, where it carries similar meanings related to deep blue tones.