U+98EE "飮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

飮

U+98EE "飮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a variant form of the East Asian character meaning "to drink" or "to swallow," primarily used in traditional Chinese and Japanese contexts, where it serves as an alternative to the more common character "飲." This ideograph is composed of the radical 食 (meaning "food" or "to eat") on the left, combined with a phonetic component on the right that suggests its pronunciation, and it appears in classical texts and historical calligraphy, representing a nuanced orthographic choice. As part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, it encodes a shared writing system across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages, though its usage has diminished in modern simplified Chinese in favor of "饮."

General Properties

Code Point	U+98EE
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	飮
HTML Hex Encoding	飮
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xA3 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding	0x98EE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000098EE
C/C++/Java Escape	\u98ee

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

kCangjie	OSNO
kCantonese	jam2
kCihaiT	1490.302
kDaeJaweon	1941.190
kDefinition	drink; swallow; kind of drink
kEACC	21606A
kFenn	441D
kFennIndex	631.05
kFourCornerCode	8778.2
kHangul	음:0E
kHanYu	74445.081
kIICore	AKP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1941.190
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74445.081
kIRGKangXi	1417.190
kIRG_GSource	GE-544E
kIRG_JSource	J0-5D3B
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-FBFD
kIRG_KSource	K0-6B66
kJapanese	インオンのむ
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kJapaneseKun	NOMU
kJapaneseOn	IN ON
kJis0	6127
kKangXi	1417.190
kKorean	UM
kMandarin	yǐn
kMatthews	7454
kMojiJoho	MJ028363
kMorohashi	44063
kPhonetic	467*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+5338+76.4.9 C+5338+184.9.4
kRSUnicode	184.4
kSMSZD2003Index	779.02
kSMSZD2003Readings	yǐn粵jam2 yìn粵jam3
kTotalStrokes	13
kUnihanCore2020	JKP
kXerox	246:330
kZVariant	U+98F2