U+9E64 "鹤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9E64 "鹤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the word for "crane," a tall, long-legged bird often associated with longevity, wisdom, and nobility in East Asian cultures. It is a logogram used in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese, as well as in Japanese (as "tsuru") and Korean (as "hak"), where it frequently appears in poetry, art, and idioms to symbolize grace and auspiciousness. This character consists of a left radical component related to birds and a right phonetic element, and its historical forms can be traced back to ancient oracle bone script. In Unicode, it belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which encodes characters for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages, and it is commonly used in modern contexts such as names, place names, and traditional literature.