U+9E4A "鹊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9E4A "鹊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that traditionally denotes the magpie, a bird often associated with joy, good fortune, and the arrival of happy news in East Asian culture. In classical and modern contexts, the character appears in idioms such as "鹊桥" (the Magpie Bridge), which references the folk tale of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, where magpies form a bridge across the Milky Way to allow the lovers to meet once a year. The character is composed of the radical for "bird" (鸟) and a phonetic component that suggests its pronunciation, and it is commonly used in literature, poetry, and names to convey auspiciousness.