U+9E33 "鸳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9E33 "鸳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used to refer to the male mandarin duck, known in Mandarin as "yuān." It is most commonly encountered in the compound word 鸳鸯 (yuānyāng), which denotes the mandarin duck species as a whole and, by cultural extension, symbolizes devoted lovers or marital fidelity in East Asian literature and art. The character belongs to the bird radical (鸟, simplified) and has various historical and regional variations in form, with its usage rooted in classical Chinese texts and modern simplified Chinese script.