U+9F8B "龋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9F8B "龋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used in modern and classical Chinese, where it denotes the concept of a dental cavity or tooth decay, often referred to as a "caries" or "cavity" in English. This character is composed of a radical related to teeth or bone structure on the left, and a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its meaning and pronunciation within the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) ideographic system. It is commonly employed in medical and dental contexts to describe the process of tooth erosion or the resulting hole, and it appears in vocabulary related to oral health across East Asian languages.