U+9938 "餸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
餸
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
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 |