U+9919 "餙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9919 "餙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character that falls under the category of CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideographs, primarily used in historical or specialized contexts rather than in modern everyday writing. Its structure combines the food radical (飠) on the left, signifying something related to eating or food, with the phonetic component 希 on the right, suggesting that it may have been used to describe a type of ornament, decoration, or embellishment, often in relation to apparel or ceremonial objects, though its exact meaning remains obscure and is not widely attested in standard dictionaries. Due to its infrequency and ambiguous usage, this character is typically encountered in ancient texts, calligraphy, or databases for rare sinographs, serving as a linguistic artifact that reflects the intricate evolution of written Chinese.

General Properties

Code Point U+9919
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 餙
HTML Hex Encoding 餙
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xA4 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9919
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009919
C/C++/Java Escape \u9919

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

kCCCII 235137
kCNS1986 E-4F6B
kCNS1992 3-4F6B
kCangjie OIKKB
kCantonese sik1
kCowles 3920
kDefinition to adorn; ornaments; to deceive
kFennIndex 456.06
kHanYu 74456.100
kHanyuPinyin 74456.100:shì,xī
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74456.100
kIRGKangXi 1421.061
kIRG_GSource GE-5457
kIRG_HSource H-9A67
kIRG_TSource T3-4F6B
kKangXi 1421.061
kMandarin shì
kMatthews 5812
kMeyerWempe 2701
kRSUnicode 184.7
kSemanticVariant U+98FE<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe
kTotalStrokes 15
kUnihanCore2020 H