U+98DF "食" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
食
U+98DF "食" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a fundamental Chinese character meaning "eat" or "food," heavily rooted in ancient pictographic origins where it depicts a lid over a container of rice or grain. It serves as a key radical in numerous other characters related to eating, cooking, and nourishment, and appears across various East Asian languages including Japanese and Korean, where it retains similar meanings. In historical contexts, this character also represented concepts of sustenance and livelihood, and it continues to be commonly used in modern writing for words like "restaurant" or "meal."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+98DF |
| 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 | 食 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 食 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xA3 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x98DF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000098DF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u98df |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | ADB9 |
| kCCCII | 216064 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-537A |
| kCNS1992 | 1-537A |
| kCangjie | OIAV |
| kCantonese | sik6 |
| kCihaiT | 1489.203 |
| kCowles | 3925 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1939.100 |
| kDefinition | eat; meal; food; Kangxi radical 184 |
| kEACC | 216064 |
| kFanqie | 羊吏 乗力 |
| kFenn | 363B |
| kFennIndex | 452.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8073.2 |
| kGB0 | 4219 |
| kGB1 | 4219 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0921a |
| kHangul | 식:0E |
| kHanYu | 74440.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | shí(341) shi(152) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74440.010:shí,sì,yì |
| kHDZRadBreak | ⾷[U+2FB7]:74440.010 |
| kHKGlyph | 4537 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1939.100 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74440.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1415.290 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4A33 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-ADB9 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3F29 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E5C3 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-635D |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-537A |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-9144 |
| kJapanese | ショク ジキ シ ジ イ くう くらう たべる めし |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:1589 |
| kJapaneseKun | KUU KURAU TABERU |
| kJapaneseOn | SHOKU SHI JIKI |
| kJis0 | 3109 |
| kKangXi | 1415.290 |
| kKorean | SIK SA |
| kLau | 2790 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7380 |
| kMandarin | shí |
| kMatthews | 5810 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2706 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ028338 MJ028338:E0102 MJ028339:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 44014:E0103 |
| kNelson | 5154 |
| kPhonetic | 1196 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2543+184.9.0 |
| kRSUnicode | 184.0 |
| kSBGY | 357.51 525.16 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+98E0<kMatthews |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 778.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | shí粵sik6 sì粵zi6 yì粵ji6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 7380 |
| kTang | *jhiək |
| kTGHZ2013 | 335.050:shí |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 243:060 |
| kXHC1983 | 1043.060:shí 1090.040:sì 1370.050:yì |