U+9BE5 "鯥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9BE5 "鯥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare or obsolete Chinese character that traditionally refers to a type of legendary fish or aquatic creature, sometimes described in classical texts as a kind of fish that resembles a snake or eel and is said to live in water. Its composition combines the radical for fish (魚) with the phonetic component 鹿 (deer), suggesting a compound meaning based on sound and semantics. Primarily encountered in ancient Chinese dictionaries and mythological references, the character is not commonly used in modern writing, though it retains significance for scholars studying historical Chinese language or traditional bestiaries. As a glyph within the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, it occupies a place in the vast repertoire of over 70,000 encoded Han characters.