U+9E2F "鸯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9E2F "鸯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents a specific type of bird, typically referring to the female of a particular species when used in compounds, most notably in the word "鸳鸯" (yuānyāng), which means mandarin duck—a symbol of love and marital fidelity in East Asian culture. This character is encoded as part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block, which standardizes characters shared across these languages for digital communication. In traditional Chinese, "鸯" appears less frequently on its own but is essential in forming the compound that describes the pair of mandarin ducks, often depicted in art and literature as an emblem of romantic devotion.