U+990C "餌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
餌
U+990C "餌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese and Japanese kanji that primarily means "bait" or "food" for animals, often used in contexts such as fishing bait or pet food. In Japanese, it is read as "esa" or "ji" in compounds, and it can also denote "food" in a general sense, including offerings in religious rituals. The character is composed of the radical 飠 (food, simplified as 饣 in modern Chinese) on the left, and the phonetic component 耳 (meaning "ear") on the right, which contributes to its pronunciation in certain readings. This ideograph appears in historical texts, everyday vocabulary related to feeding, and cultural references, reflecting its practical and symbolic role in East Asian languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+990C |
| 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 | 餌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 餌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xA4 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x990C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000990C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u990c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BBE7 |
| kCCCII | 216072 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6B70 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6B70 |
| kCangjie | OISJ |
| kCantonese | nei6 |
| kCihaiT | 1492.201 |
| kCowles | 2878 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1944.020 |
| kDefinition | bait; bait, entice; dumplings |
| kEACC | 216072 |
| kFanqie | 仍吏 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8174.0 |
| kGB1 | 2292 |
| kGradeLevel | 6 |
| kGSR | 0981h |
| kHangul | 이:0 |
| kHanYu | 74449.130 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74449.130:ěr |
| kHKGlyph | 4551 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1944.020 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74449.130 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1419.300 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-367C |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BBE7 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3142 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-FCBE |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6C48 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6B70 |
| kJapanese | ジ え えさ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kJapaneseKun | MOCHI E ESA |
| kJapaneseOn | JI |
| kJis0 | 1734 |
| kKangXi | 1419.300 |
| kKarlgren | 11 |
| kKorean | I |
| kLau | 2287 |
| kMandarin | ěr |
| kMatthews | 1750 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1983 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ028411 MJ028409:E0104 MJ028411:E0105 MJ028410:E0106 MJ028413:E0107 MJ028408:E0108 MJ028412:E0109 |
| kMorohashi | 44146:E0108 |
| kNelson | 5167 |
| kPhonetic | 1546 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1252+128.6.8 C+1252+184.8.6 V+7643+128.6.9 V+7643+184.9.6 V+13413+128.6.8 V+13413+184.8.6 V+13650+128.6.9 V+13650+184.9.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 184.6 |
| kSBGY | 357.24 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "饵" U+9975 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 780.01 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | ěr粵nei6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 7403 |
| kTang | njiə̀ |
| kTotalStrokes | 14 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 266:241 |