U+98F9 "飹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+98F9 "飹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and archaic Chinese character classified under the radical for "food" or "eat" (飠/食). Its exact historical usage and meaning are not well documented in modern standard Chinese dictionaries, but it likely functioned as a variant or component of other characters related to cooking or consumption. While it may appear in ancient or specialized texts, it is not commonly used in contemporary Chinese, Japanese, or Korean writing, and its inclusion in Unicode reflects the effort to encode historical and uncommon Han characters for scholarly and digital preservation purposes.

General Properties

Code Point	U+98F9
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	飹
HTML Hex Encoding	飹
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xA3 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding	0x98F9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000098F9
C/C++/Java Escape	\u98f9

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	E0E3
kCCCII	23507B
kCNS1986	2-4869
kCNS1992	2-4869
kCangjie	OIHHL
kCantonese	baau2
kDaeJaweon	1942.330
kFourCornerCode	8772.0
kHanYu	74448.090
kIRGDaeJaweon	1942.330
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74448.090
kIRGKangXi	1418.290
kIRG_GSource	GE-5452
kIRG_HSource	HB2-E0E3
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-028377
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-883E
kIRG_TSource	T2-4869
kJapanese	リュウ ル
kKangXi	1418.290
kMandarin	bǎo
kMojiJoho	MJ028377
kMorohashi	44100
kPhonetic	870*
kRSUnicode	184.5
kTotalStrokes	13
kUnihanCore2020	HMT