U+990A "養" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

養

U+990A "養" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily means "to nourish," "to raise," or "to support," often in the context of caring for one's parents, cultivating personal growth, or fostering life. It appears in the Kangxi Dictionary and is found across multiple East Asian languages including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it conveys concepts of sustenance and maintenance, such as in the Japanese term "養子" meaning adopted child or the Chinese phrase "養生" referring to nurturing life or health. This character is composed of the radical "食" meaning food, combined with other elements, symbolizing the idea of providing nourishment through sustenance. Its usage spans classical texts and modern daily vocabulary, reflecting deep cultural values of family care and self-cultivation in East Asian societies.

General Properties

Code Point	U+990A
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	養
HTML Hex Encoding	養
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xA4 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding	0x990A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000990A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u990a

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	BE69
kCCCII	216071
kCNS1986	1-6F72
kCNS1992	1-6F72
kCangjie	TOIAV
kCantonese	joeng5
kCihaiT	1491.409
kCowles	5198
kDaeJaweon	1943.310
kDefinition	raise, rear, bring up; support
kEACC	216071
kFanqie	餘兩餘亮
kFenn	151A
kFennIndex	615.03 616.02
kFourCornerCode	8073.2
kGB1	4988
kGradeLevel	1
kGSR	0732j
kHangul	양:0E
kHanYu	74452.080
kHanyuPinlu	yǎng(430)
kHanyuPinyin	74452.080:yàng,yǎng
kHKGlyph	4553
kIICore	ATJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	1943.310
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74452.080
kIRGKangXi	1419.260
kIRG_GSource	G1-5178
kIRG_HSource	HB1-BE69
kIRG_JSource	J0-4D5C
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-F8A8
kIRG_KSource	K0-6557
kIRG_TSource	T1-6F72
kIRG_VSource	V1-6C2D
kJapanese	ヨウやしなうやしない
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kJapaneseKun	YASHINAU YASHINAI
kJapaneseOn	YOU
kJis0	4560
kKangXi	1419.260
kKarlgren	211
kKorean	YANG
kLau	3399
kMandarin	yǎng
kMatthews	7254
kMeyerWempe	3887
kMojiJoho	MJ028405 MJ028405:E0102 MJ059042:E0103 MJ028406:E0104 MJ068101:E0105
kMorohashi	44144:E0104
kNelson	3671
kPhonetic	1530
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+3910+123.6.9 C+3910+184.9.6 V+14080+123.6.9 V+14080+184.9.6 V+20247+37.3.13 V+20247+123.6.10
kRSUnicode	184.6
kSBGY	310.12 424.33
kSimplifiedVariant	"养" U+517B CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	779.14 539.06
kSMSZD2003Readings	yǎng粵joeng5 yǎng,yàng粵joeng6
kTaiwanTelegraph	9502
kTang	*iɑ̌ng
kTotalStrokes	14
kUnihanCore2020	HJKMPT
kVietnamese	dưỡng
kXerox	243:320
kXHC1983	1337.051:yǎng