U+9972 "饲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9972 "饲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to feed" or "to raise" animals, often used in the context of providing food for livestock or domestic pets. It is composed of the radical 饣 (food, a simplified form of 食) on the left, indicating its association with eating or nourishment, and the phonetic component 司 on the right. This character appears in common words such as 饲养 (sìyǎng, meaning "to raise or breed" animals) and 饲料 (sìliào, meaning "feed" or "fodder"). In simplified Chinese, it is the standard form of the traditional character 飼, reflecting a systematic simplification where the food radical is written with fewer strokes.