U+9AD9 "髙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9AD9 "髙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a variant form of the standard Chinese character 高, meaning "tall," "high," or "elevated," and is used across various East Asian writing systems, including Japanese and Korean. This particular glyph, often referred to as the "tall" or "ladder" radical (亠) variant, differs from the common form 高 by substituting the top component with a slightly different arrangement of strokes, typically featuring a dot and a horizontal line above a squared enclosure. It appears in historical texts, personal names, and place names, notably in Japan where it is a common surname character (e.g., 髙橋, Takahashi). As part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, it encodes a logogram shared across Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese scripts, facilitating consistent representation despite regional typographic variations.