U+9CDD "鳝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9CDD "鳝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a type of eel, specifically the rice field eel or swamp eel, commonly known as "shàn" in Mandarin. This character combines the radical for fish (鱼) on the left side with the phonetic component (善) on the right, reflecting its meaning and pronunciation. In traditional Chinese culture and cuisine, the character refers to a nutritious and widely consumed freshwater eel, often featured in dishes such as stir-fried eel slices or eel soup. The ideograph is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified script, encoding a common symbol used in written Chinese for centuries to denote this specific animal.