U+9CCD "鳍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9CCD "鳍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that represents the concept of a fin, specifically the fin of a fish, and is commonly used in modern Mandarin and Japanese kanji. Its simplified Chinese form is 鳍, while the traditional variant is 鰭, and it belongs to the radical 魚 (fish) combined with the phonetic component 耆, indicating both meaning and sound cues. In Unicode, it is classified under the CJK Unified Ideographs block, with a codepoint of U+9CCD in hexadecimal, and it is typically used in biological or culinary contexts to describe fish anatomy or dishes featuring fish fins. The character is also employed in compound terms like 鱼鳍 (fish fin) or 鲨鱼鳍 (shark fin), highlighting its practical role in written East Asian languages.