U+98E0 "飠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+98E0 "飠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily serves as a left radical component in complex characters, representing the concept of food or eating, as it is a variant form of the radical "食" (shí), which means "food" or "to eat." This specific glyph is less commonly used as a standalone character in modern Simplified Chinese, where it has been simplified to "饣," but it remains prevalent in Traditional Chinese script and in historical texts, where it appears in words related to cooking, nourishment, and dining. Its inclusion in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) Unified Ideographs block ensures it is recognized across multiple East Asian languages that historically adopted Chinese characters, though its usage frequency varies by language and regional writing standards.

General Properties

Code Point U+98E0
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 飠
HTML Hex Encoding 飠
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xA3 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding 0x98E0
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000098E0
C/C++/Java Escape \u98e0

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 212E25
kCangjie OIAI
kCantonese sik6
kDefinition eat, food; radical number 184
kGB1 6627
kHanYu 74440.011
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74440.011
kIRGKangXi 1415.291
kIRG_GSource G1-623B
kIRG_HSource H-99F6
kIRG_JSource J4-7C4B
kJapanese しょくへん
kJIS0213 2,92,43
kKangXi 1415.291
kMandarin shí
kMatthews 5810
kMojiJoho MJ028340
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+13848+184.8.0
kRSUnicode 184.0
kSemanticVariant U+98DF<kMatthews
kSimplifiedVariant "饣" U+9963 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes 8
kUnihanCore2020 H
kXerox 314:366