U+9909 "餉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
餉
U+9909 "餉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character primarily meaning "provisions for troops," "rations," or "salary," often used in historical and military contexts to denote food supplies or payments given to soldiers. It can also refer more generally to a meal or to the act of providing food, and in some classical texts it carries the sense of entertaining guests or offering hospitality. Composed of the radical for food (食) and a phonetic component, this character appears in historical records and classical literature from Chinese, Japanese, and Korean sources, reflecting its role in administrative and logistical language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9909 |
| 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 | 餉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 餉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xA4 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9909 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009909 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9909 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BBE8 |
| kCCCII | 216073 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6B71 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6B71 |
| kCangjie | OIHBR |
| kCantonese | hoeng2 |
| kCihaiT | 1491.408 |
| kCowles | 1049 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1943.270 |
| kDefinition | rations and pay for soldiers |
| kEACC | 216073 |
| kFanqie | 式亮 |
| kFenn | 579E |
| kFennIndex | 169.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8772.0 |
| kGB1 | 6635 |
| kGSR | 0715e |
| kHangul | 향:0N |
| kHanYu | 74451.050 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74451.050:xiǎng |
| kHKGlyph | 4552 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1943.270 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74451.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1419.210 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-6243 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BBE8 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-712E |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F3A8 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7A43 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6B71 |
| kJapanese | ショウ かれいい |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | KAREII |
| kJapaneseOn | SHOU |
| kJis0 | 8114 |
| kKangXi | 1419.210 |
| kKarlgren | 137 |
| kKorean | HYANG |
| kMandarin | xiǎng |
| kMatthews | 2551 |
| kMeyerWempe | 711 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ028404 MJ028404:E0102 MJ028403:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 44140 44140:E0102 |
| kNelson | 5164 |
| kPhonetic | 466 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+7205+184.9.6 V+14262+184.8.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 184.6 |
| kSBGY | 425.03 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+995F<kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "饷" U+9977 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 779.13 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | xiǎng粵hoeng2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 7401 |
| kTang | shiɑ̀ng |
| kTotalStrokes | 14 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 263:141 |