U+9E48 "鹈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9E48 "鹈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character representing a pelican, specifically referring to the large water bird known for its distinctive throat pouch used to catch fish. It is a simplified character composed of the radical for "bird" on the right and a phonetic component on the left, and it appears in modern Chinese texts, particularly in classical literature and poetry where it may symbolize patience or resourcefulness in fishing. This character is encoded in the CJK Unified Ideographs block of the Unicode standard to support digital representation of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages.