U+9E5C "鹜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9E5C "鹜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to a type of duck, specifically a domestic duck, and is often used in classical and modern Chinese literature to denote this waterfowl. In addition to its literal meaning, the character appears in various compound words and idioms, such as "趋之若鹜" (qū zhī ruò wù), which describes a crowd rushing after something eagerly like a flock of ducks, conveying a sense of blindly following a trend. The character itself combines a phonetic component with a radical related to birds, reflecting its agricultural and cultural significance in East Asian contexts.