U+98EF "飯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
飯
U+98EF "飯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logogram representing the concept of cooked rice or a meal in East Asian languages, particularly in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Its structure combines the radical for "food" or "eat" on the left side with a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its role in daily sustenance and cultural practices. In Japanese, it is commonly read as "meshi" or "han" and appears in words like "gohan" for cooked rice or a meal, while in Chinese it is pronounced "fàn" and extends metaphorically to mean any staple food or livelihood. This character is widely used in written and digital communication across the region, tying together culinary traditions and social customs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+98EF |
| 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 | 飯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 飯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xA3 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x98EF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000098EF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u98ef |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B6BA |
| kCCCII | 21606B |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6321 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6321 |
| kCangjie | OIHE |
| kCantonese | faan6 |
| kCihaiT | 1490.501 |
| kCowles | 677 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1941.210 |
| kDefinition | cooked rice; food; meal |
| kEACC | 21606B |
| kFanqie | 扶晚 符万 |
| kFenn | 215A |
| kFennIndex | 129.08 130.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8174.7 |
| kGB1 | 2325 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0262i |
| kHangul | 반:0E |
| kHanYu | 74444.050 |
| kHanyuPinlu | fàn(557) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74444.050:fàn |
| kHKGlyph | 4541 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1941.210 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74444.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1417.270 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-3739 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B6BA |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4853 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-DDA3 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5A79 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6321 |
| kJapanese | ハン めし |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | MESHI |
| kJapaneseOn | HAN BON |
| kJis0 | 4051 |
| kKangXi | 1417.270 |
| kKarlgren | 19 |
| kKorean | PAN |
| kLau | 655 |
| kMandarin | fàn |
| kMatthews | 1787 |
| kMeyerWempe | 461 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ028364 MJ030240:FE00 MJ028364:E0103 MJ030240:E0104 |
| kMorohashi | 44064' 44064:FE00 44064':E0103 44064:E0104 |
| kNelson | 5158 |
| kPhonetic | 339 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3431+184.8.4 V+20261+184.9.4 |
| kRSUnicode | 184.4 |
| kSBGY | 281.51 398.17 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "饭" U+996D CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 778.17 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | fàn粵faan6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 7391 |
| kTang | bhiæ̀n bhiæ̌n |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 243:260 |