U+98E2 "飢" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

飢

U+98E2 "飢" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (Hanzi) that primarily means "hunger" or "famine," and it is also used in Japanese as a kanji with the same core meaning of starvation or scarcity of food. This ideograph is composed of two main components: the radical "食" (shoku, meaning "food" or "eat") on the left, and the phonetic element "几" (ji) on the right, which together convey the concept of being deprived of sustenance. Historically and culturally, the character appears in classical texts and idioms describing extreme hunger, such as in the famous Chinese phrase "飢寒交迫" (jī hán jiāo pò), meaning "suffering from hunger and cold." In modern usage, it remains a standard character in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese writing systems, as well as in Japanese, where it is read as "ki" in on'yomi and "u(e)ru" in kun'yomi.

General Properties

Code Point	U+98E2
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	飢
HTML Hex Encoding	飢
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xA3 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding	0x98E2
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000098E2
C/C++/Java Escape	\u98e2

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	B0A7
kCCCII	216065
kCNS1986	1-586A
kCNS1992	1-586A
kCangjie	OIHN
kCantonese	gei1
kCihaiT	1490.101
kCowles	1604
kDaeJaweon	1940.090
kDefinition	hunger, starving; hungry; a famine
kEACC	216065
kFanqie	居夷
kFennIndex	31.05
kFourCornerCode	8771.0
kGB1	8831
kGradeLevel	4
kGSR	0602f
kHangul	기:0E
kHanYu	74441.050 74441.070
kHanyuPinlu	jī(37)
kHanyuPinyin	74441.050,74441.070:jī
kHKGlyph	4538
kIICore	ATJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1940.090
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74441.050
kIRGKangXi	1416.080
kIRG_GSource	G1-783F
kIRG_HSource	HB1-B0A7
kIRG_JSource	J0-3532
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-D2F0
kIRG_KSource	K0-5146
kIRG_TSource	T1-586A
kIRG_VSource	V1-6C29
kJapanese	キうえる
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kJapaneseKun	UERU
kJapaneseOn	KI
kJis0	2118
kKangXi	1416.080
kKarlgren	318
kKorean	KI
kLau	879
kMandarin	jī
kMatthews	417
kMeyerWempe	1095
kMojiJoho	MJ028343 MJ028343:E0102 MJ028344:E0103 MJ028342:E0104
kMorohashi	44023' 44023':E0102 44028:E0103 44023:E0104
kNelson	5155
kPhonetic	596
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+1612+16.2.8 C+1612+184.8.2 V+13705+16.2.9 V+13705+184.9.2
kRSUnicode	184.2
kSBGY	052.44
kSemanticVariant	U+9951<kLau,kMatthews,kMeyerWempe
kSimplifiedVariant	"饥" U+9965 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	778.03
kSMSZD2003Readings	jī粵gei1
kTaiwanTelegraph	7382
kTang	*gyi giəi
kTotalStrokes	10
kUnihanCore2020	HJKMPT
kVietnamese	cơ
kXerox	323:363