U+9CA7 "鲧" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9CA7 "鲧" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a figure from ancient Chinese mythology and history. It refers to Gun, a legendary figure who was the father of Yu the Great, the founder of the Xia dynasty. In myth, Gun was tasked by the emperor Yao with controlling a great flood, but his method of building dikes and dams failed, leading to his execution by the celestial lord Shun. His story is recorded in classical texts such as the "Classic of History" and "Records of the Grand Historian," and the character itself is composed of the radical for fish, 鱼, combined with a phonetic component, reflecting its use in historical and mythological contexts.