U+918E "醎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+918E "醎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character historically classified under the radical for "wine" or "fermented liquid" (酉), and it primarily denotes a salty or briny taste, often associated with preserved or pickled foods. It appears in classical Chinese texts as a variant or close relative of the more common character 鹹 (xián), sharing the meaning of saltiness, though it is less frequently used in modern standard Chinese. This ideograph reflects the linguistic evolution of flavor descriptors in East Asian writing systems, where it captures a sensory concept tied to traditional culinary practices.

General Properties

Code Point U+918E
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 醎
HTML Hex Encoding 醎
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0x86 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0x918E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000918E
C/C++/Java Escape \u918e

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

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kCNS1986 E-532D
kCNS1992 3-532D
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kDaeJaweon 1785.120
kEACC 23407E
kFanqie 胡讒
kGB5 7813
kHanYu 63589.070
kHanyuPinyin 63589.070:xián,jiǎn
kIRGDaeJaweon 1785.120
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 63589.070
kIRGKangXi 1285.110
kIRG_GSource G5-6E2D
kIRG_HSource H-9FB8
kIRG_JSource J14-7A47
kIRG_KPSource KP1-7F45
kIRG_KSource K2-6739
kIRG_TSource T3-532D
kJapanese カン しおからい
kJIS0213 2,90,39
kJapaneseKun SEISHIYU
kJapaneseOn DAI
kJis1 6673
kKangXi 1285.110
kMandarin xián
kMojiJoho MJ026510
kMorohashi 39926
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+15210+164.7.9
kRSUnicode 164.9
kSBGY 229.28
kTaiwanTelegraph 9362
kTotalStrokes 16
kUnihanCore2020 H
kXerox 317:070