U+9906 "餆" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9906 "餆" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a relatively rare Chinese character classified under the radical for food or eat (飠 or 食), and it specifically refers to a type of boiled or stuffed dumpling, often filled with meat or vegetables, resembling a potsticker or a variant of jiaozi in Chinese cuisine. Its structure combines the food radical on the left with the phonetic component "兆" on the right, which hints at its pronunciation, typically read as "yáo" or "jiǎo" in Mandarin, though its usage is largely confined to classical or regional culinary texts rather than modern everyday writing. This character thus serves as a specialized glyph for a traditional food item, reflecting the depth and specificity of the Chinese writing system in encoding cultural practices.

General Properties

Code Point U+9906
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 餆
HTML Hex Encoding 餆
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xA4 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9906
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009906
C/C++/Java Escape \u9906

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 235126
kCNS1986 E-4A5B
kCNS1992 3-4A5B
kCangjie OILMO
kCantonese jiu4
kDaeJaweon 1943.210
kFanqie 餘昭
kHanYu 74451.100
kHanyuPinyin 74451.100:yáo
kIRGDaeJaweon 1943.210
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74451.100
kIRGKangXi 1419.150
kIRG_GSource GE-5454
kIRG_JSource JMJ-028399
kIRG_KPSource KP1-8868
kIRG_TSource T3-4A5B
kJapanese ヨウ
kKangXi 1419.150
kMandarin yáo
kMojiJoho MJ028399
kMorohashi 44134
kRSUnicode 184.6
kSBGY 149.10
kTotalStrokes 14