U+9CB6 "鲶" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9CB6 "鲶" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a type of catfish, specifically the sheatfish or Amur catfish, and is commonly used in East Asian languages such as Chinese and Japanese. In Chinese, it is pronounced "nián" and appears in words like "鲶鱼" meaning catfish, while in Japanese it is read as "namazu" and is famously associated with folklore about a giant catfish causing earthquakes. The character combines the radical for "fish" on the left with the phonetic component "念" on the right, reflecting its meaning and pronunciation.