U+9888 "颈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9888 "颈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that means "neck" and is used in both simplified and traditional writing systems for Mandarin Chinese, where it forms part of compound words for anatomical terms like "颈椎" (cervical vertebra) or "颈部" (neck area). It is composed of the radical "页" (page or head) on the right, which relates to the head or neck region, and the left side "巠" provides phonetic guidance for its pronunciation as "jǐng" in Mandarin. Beyond anatomy, "颈" also appears in figurative expressions such as "瓶颈" (bottleneck, literally "neck of a bottle") to describe a narrow or constricted point in a process. This character exemplifies how Chinese characters encode both meaning and sound within a single logographic unit, reflecting the rich semantic layers of the writing system.