U+98A6 "颦" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+98A6 "颦" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that traditionally means to frown or to knit one's brows, often conveying an expression of worry, displeasure, or deep thought. It is composed of the radical for "page" or "leaf" (页) combined with the phonetic component 频 (pín), though its pronunciation in Mandarin is pín as well. This character is most famously known from the classical Chinese idiom "东施效颦" which references the story of Xishi, a legendary beauty, whose frown was imitated awkwardly by an ugly woman named Dongshi, illustrating the folly of blind imitation without understanding. In modern usage, 颦 retains its poetic and literary flavor, appearing in descriptive texts and traditional phrases to evoke a subtle, melancholic facial expression.