U+98FC "飼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
飼
U+98FC "飼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to raise" or "to rear" animals, especially in the context of feeding and caring for livestock or pets. It is composed of the radical for "food" or "eat" on the left and a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its original meaning related to providing nourishment. This character is used in both traditional Chinese and Japanese writing, where it appears in words such as "飼料" (animal feed) and "飼育" (breeding or raising animals). As a CJK unified ideograph, it is part of a large set of characters shared across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean scripts, though its usage and pronunciation vary by language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+98FC |
| 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 | 飼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 飼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xA3 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x98FC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000098FC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u98fc |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B97D |
| kCCCII | 21606C |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6765 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6765 |
| kCangjie | OISMR |
| kCantonese | zi6 |
| kCihaiT | 1491.404 |
| kCowles | 4681 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1942.390 |
| kDefinition | raise animals; feed; nourish |
| kEACC | 21606C |
| kFanqie | 祥吏 |
| kFenn | 701H |
| kFennIndex | 483.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8772.0 |
| kGB1 | 4339 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kHangul | 사:0N |
| kHanYu | 74449.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu | sì(36) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74449.020:sì |
| kHKGlyph | 4545 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1942.390 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74449.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1418.360 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-4B47 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B97D |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3B74 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E0FD |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5E78 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6765 |
| kJapanese | シ かう やしなう |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | KAU YASHINAU |
| kJapaneseOn | SHI JI |
| kJis0 | 2784 |
| kKangXi | 1418.360 |
| kKorean | SA |
| kLau | 1449 |
| kMandarin | sì |
| kMatthews | 5587 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3542d |
| kMojiJoho | MJ028381 MJ030241:FE00 MJ028381:E0102 MJ030241:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 44107' 44107:FE00 44107':E0102 44107:E0103 |
| kNelson | 5163 |
| kPhonetic | 1169 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2242+184.8.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 184.5 |
| kSBGY | 356.37 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+98E4<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "饲" U+9972 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 779.06 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | sì粵zi6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 7393 |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 253:341 |