U+988A "颊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+988A "颊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily represents the cheek or side of the face, commonly used in words like "面颊" (face cheek) and "脸颊" (cheek). This ideograph, which falls into the CJK Unified Ideographs block, combines the radical for "页" (page or head) with other components to convey the concept of a facial area adjacent to the mouth and eyes. In traditional Chinese culture, it appears in expressions related to blushing or facial expressions, highlighting its role in describing both physical anatomy and emotional states.

General Properties

Code Point	U+988A
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	颊
HTML Hex Encoding	颊
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xA2 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding	0x988A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000988A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u988a

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

kCCCII	276047
kCangjie	KTMBO
kCantonese	gaap3
kDefinition	cheeks, jaw
kEACC	276047
kFourCornerCode	5188
kGB0	2853
kHanYu	74367.160
kHanyuPinlu	jiá(10)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74367.160
kIRGKangXi	1410.451
kIRG_GSource	G0-3C55
kTGH	2013:2597
kKangXi	1410.451
kMainlandTelegraph	7335
kMandarin	jiá
kPhonetic	550*
kRSUnicode	181'.6
kSMSZD2003Index	772.12
kTGHZ2013	161.120:jiá
kTotalStrokes	12
kTraditionalVariant	"頰" U+9830 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0541.150:jiá