U+9912 "餒" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9912 "餒" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character used in both Classical Chinese and Japanese Kanji, where it primarily conveys the meanings of "hunger," "starving," or "to be famished," often metaphorically extending to a sense of "discouragement" or "dejection" due to lack of sustenance or support. In its composition, the character combines the radical for "food" (食) with phonetic components to suggest the concept of going without food, and it appears in classical texts such as the "Analects" of Confucius to describe both physical hunger and a weakening of spirit. Historically, "餒" has been used in contexts of mourning, impoverished conditions, or times of scarcity, and it remains recognized in modern East Asian languages for its literary and formal connotations. Notably, its simplified Chinese variant is "馁," though the traditional form U+9912 preserves the fuller semantic and historical depth associated with this character.

General Properties

Code Point U+9912
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 餒
HTML Hex Encoding 餒
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xA4 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9912
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009912
C/C++/Java Escape \u9912

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 BE6B
kCCCII 216075
kCNS1986 1-6F74
kCNS1992 1-6F74
kCangjie OIBV
kCantonese neoi5
kCihaiT 1493.101
kDaeJaweon 1945.030
kDefinition hungry, starving, famished
kEACC 216075
kFanqie 奴罪
kFourCornerCode 8274.4
kGB1 3657
kGradeLevel 6
kGSR 0354d
kHangul 뇌:1N
kHanYu 74457.030
kHanyuPinyin 74457.030:něi
kHKGlyph 4555
kIICore ATHM
kIRGDaeJaweon 1945.030
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74457.030
kIRGKangXi 1420.030
kIRG_GSource G1-4459
kIRG_HSource HB1-BE6B
kIRG_JSource J0-712F
kIRG_KPSource KP1-886B
kIRG_KSource K1-5C4D
kIRG_TSource T1-6F74
kIRG_VSource V1-6C2E
kJapanese ダイ ネ うえる
kKoreanName 2015
kJapaneseKun UERU
kJapaneseOn DAI
kJis0 8115
kKangXi 1420.030
kKorean NOY
kMandarin něi
kMatthews 4767
kMeyerWempe 2115a
kMojiJoho MJ028419 MJ028419:E0101 MJ028420:E0102 MJ028418:E0103
kMorohashi 44163 44163:E0101
kNelson 5169
kPhonetic 1369
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+7206+184.9.7
kRSUnicode 184.7
kSBGY 273.08
kSemanticVariant U+9927<kMatthews
kSimplifiedVariant "馁" U+9981 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 780.11
kSMSZD2003Readings něi粵neoi5
kSpecializedSemanticVariant U+9927<kMeyerWempe
kTaiwanTelegraph 7407
kTotalStrokes 15
kUnihanCore2020 HJMT
kVietnamese nuôi
kXerox 264:337