U+9913 "餓" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
餓
U+9913 "餓" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that fundamentally means "hunger" or "starve" and is commonly used in both modern and classical East Asian languages, including Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. It is composed of the radical 食 (food) on the left, indicating its association with eating or nourishment, and the phonetic component 我 (wǒ, meaning "I" or "self") on the right, which contributes to its pronunciation. In practical usage, this character appears in words like 飢餓 (jī'è, "starvation") in Chinese and 飢餓 (kiga) in Japanese, often carrying connotations of extreme food deprivation or a craving for sustenance, making it a significant symbol in discussions of famine, economic hardship, and survival.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9913 |
| 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 | 餓 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 餓 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xA4 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9913 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009913 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9913 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BE6A |
| kCCCII | 216077 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6F73 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6F73 |
| kCangjie | OIHQI |
| kCantonese | ngo6 |
| kCihaiT | 1493.103 |
| kCowles | 3066 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1945.070 |
| kDefinition | hungry; greedy for; hunger |
| kEACC | 216077 |
| kFanqie | 五个 |
| kFenn | 338A |
| kFennIndex | 370.10 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8375.0 |
| kGB1 | 2286 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 0002o |
| kHangul | 아:0E |
| kHanYu | 74456.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu | è(164) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74456.020:è |
| kHKGlyph | 4554 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1945.070 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74456.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1420.080 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-3676 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BE6A |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-326E |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F7AE |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-643B |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6F73 |
| kJapanese | ガ うえる |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | UERU |
| kJapaneseOn | GA |
| kJis0 | 1878 |
| kKangXi | 1420.080 |
| kKorean | A |
| kLau | 2358 |
| kMandarin | è |
| kMatthews | 4785 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2063 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ028421 MJ028421:E0102 MJ028422:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 44168' 44168':E0102 44168:E0103 |
| kNelson | 5171 |
| kPhonetic | 967 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1390+184.8.7 V+13672+184.9.7 |
| kRSUnicode | 184.7 |
| kSBGY | 419.31 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "饿" U+997F CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 780.12 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | è粵ngo6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 7408 |
| kTang | ngɑ̀ |
| kTotalStrokes | 15 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 247:344 |