U+9BE8 "鯨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+9BE8 "鯨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a whale, specifically used in written Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) contexts, where it is pronounced as "jīng" in Mandarin, "kujira" in Japanese, and "gyeong" in Korean. This ideograph is composed of the radical "魚" (fish) on the left and the phonetic component "京" on the right, reflecting its meaning as a large marine mammal. In Unicode, it belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which standardizes thousands of East Asian characters for digital text processing. The character appears in classical literature and modern usage alike, symbolizing size and the ocean, and it is often used in compound words like "鯨魚" (whale) in Chinese. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent representation across platforms and languages.