U+9CB5 "鲵" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9CB5 "鲵" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the giant salamander, specifically referring to the Cryptobranchidae family of amphibians. In traditional usage, it denotes a large, aquatic creature often associated with riverine habitats in East Asia, and it appears in classical texts and modern contexts such as zoological terminology. The character is composed of the radical for fish (鱼) and the phonetic component 兒, reflecting its classification as a water-dwelling animal. As part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, it is encoded for use in digital text processing across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages.