U+9CC3 "鳃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9CC3 "鳃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logogram used in written Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it represents the concept of "gills," the respiratory organs of fish and some amphibians. In simplified Chinese, it is written as "鳃," while its traditional counterpart is "鰓," and it belongs to the radical "⿂" meaning fish, combined with the phonetic component "思" to indicate sound. The character appears in various contexts, from biology textbooks discussing aquatic life to everyday language in phrases like "鱼鳃" (fish gills), underscoring its practical and literal role in describing anatomical features of aquatic animals across East Asian scripts.