U+9938 "餸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9938 "餸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used primarily in Cantonese and other southern Chinese dialects, where it refers to a side dish or accompaniment served with rice, often meaning a cooked dish of meat or vegetables. It is composed of the radical for "food" (食) on the left and the phonetic component "送" on the right, reflecting its culinary context. While less common in standard Mandarin, this character appears in everyday writing and menus in Hong Kong and Guangdong regions, distinguishing a specific category of meal components.

General Properties

Code Point U+9938
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 餸
HTML Hex Encoding 餸
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xA4 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9938
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009938
C/C++/Java Escape \u9938

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 23515E
kCNS1986 E-5961
kCNS1992 3-5961
kCangjie OIYTK
kCantonese sung3
kCheungBauer 184/10;OIYTK;sung3
kCheungBauerIndex 472.03
kDefinition (Cant.) a side dish of food prepared to accompany rice
kHanYu 74468.070
kHanyuPinyin 74468.070:sòng
kIICore BHM
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74468.070
kIRGKangXi 1424.171
kIRG_GSource GE-545F
kIRG_HSource H-9652
kIRG_MSource MA-9652
kIRG_TSource T3-5961
kKangXi 1424.171
kMandarin sòng
kPhonetic 1276*
kRSUnicode 184.10
kSimplifiedVariant "𩠌" U+2980C CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes 17
kUnihanCore2020 HM
kXerox 266:110