U+716E "煮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+716E "煮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to boil" or "to cook" in liquid, often referring to the process of simmering or stewing food in water or broth. Composed of the radical "火" (fire) and the phonetic component "者," it visually conveys the concept of applying heat to prepare ingredients, and it appears in compounds such as "煮飯" (cook rice) and "煮湯" (make soup). This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block, used across multiple East Asian writing systems to represent a fundamental culinary action.

General Properties

Code Point	U+716E
Version Added	1.1
Name	CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Block	CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	煮
HTML Hex Encoding	煮
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0x85 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding	0x716E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000716E
C/C++/Java Escape	\u716e

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Han
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes
Unified Ideograph	Yes

Unihan Properties

kBigFive	B54E
kCCCII	214963
kCNS1986	1-6054
kCNS1992	1-6054
kCangjie	JAF
kCantonese	zyu2
kCihaiT	852.605
kDaeJaweon	1087.170
kDefinition	cook
kEACC	214963
kFanqie	章与
kFenn	192C
kFennIndex	95.04
kFourCornerCode	4433.6
kGB0	5483
kGB1	5483
kGradeLevel	1
kGSR	0045m
kHangul	자:0N
kHanYu	32211.110
kHanyuPinlu	zhǔ(52)
kHanyuPinyin	32211.110:zhǔ
kHKGlyph	2395
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1087.170
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	32211.110
kIRGKangXi	0678.161
kIRG_GSource	G0-5673
kIRG_HSource	HB1-B54E
kIRG_JSource	J0-3C51
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-E6B5
kIRG_KSource	K0-6D34
kIRG_TSource	T1-6054
kJapanese	シャ ショ にる にえる にやす
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:2529
kJapaneseKun	NIRU NIERU
kJapaneseOn	SHA SHO
kJis0	2849
kKangXi	0678.161
kKorean	CA
kLau	1570
kMainlandTelegraph	3554
kMandarin	zhǔ
kMatthews	1356
kMeyerWempe	351
kMojiJoho	MJ016520 MJ030269:FE00 MJ016520:E0102 MJ030269:E0103
kMorohashi	19165' 19188:FE00 19165':E0102 19188:E0103
kNelson	2771 2775
kPhonetic	94
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2301+86.4.8
kRSUnicode	86.8
kSBGY	257.04
kSemanticVariant	U+7151<kFenn U+4C1E<kSMSZD2003Index:T
kSMSZD2003Index	398.07
kSMSZD2003Readings	zhǔ粵zyu2
kTaiwanTelegraph	3554
kTang	jiǔ
kTGHZ2013	484.200:zhǔ
kTotalStrokes	12
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kXerox	251:152
kXHC1983	1512.040:zhǔ