U+98E8 "飨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+98E8 "飨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character traditionally meaning "to feast" or "to entertain guests with food and drink," often conveying a sense of offering a banquet or sharing a meal as a gesture of hospitality or reverence. It is a simplified form of the character "饗" and is commonly used in classical and literary contexts, as well as in modern phrases like "飨宴" meaning a grand feast. Structurally, it combines the radical for "food" or "eat" with a phonetic component, reflecting its semantic association with dining and celebration.

General Properties

Code Point	U+98E8
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	飨
HTML Hex Encoding	飨
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xA3 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x98E8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000098E8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u98e8

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	295222
kCangjie	VHOIV
kCantonese	hoeng2
kDefinition	host banquet; banquet
kEACC	295222
kFourCornerCode	2823
kGB0	8747
kHanYu	74443.040
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74443.040
kIRGKangXi	1417.011
kIRG_GSource	G0-774F
kTGH	2013:5338
kKangXi	1417.011
kMainlandTelegraph	7440
kMandarin	xiǎng
kRSUnicode	184.3
kSMSZD2003Index	778.11
kTGHZ2013	401.140:xiǎng
kTotalStrokes	12
kTraditionalVariant	"饗" U+9957 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1259.050:xiǎng