U+993B "餻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

餻

U+993B "餻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily refers to a type of cake or pastry, often made from glutinous rice or wheat flour, and is commonly associated with the word "gao" in Mandarin. This character appears in historical and regional contexts, such as in the name of the dish "年糕" (nian gao, or New Year cake), which symbolizes prosperity and advancement. It is also used in various East Asian culinary traditions, including those in Korea and Japan, where similar rice-based confections are valued for their texture and ceremonial importance.

General Properties

Code Point	U+993B
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	餻
HTML Hex Encoding	餻
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xA4 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding	0x993B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000993B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u993b

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	23515C
kCNS1986	E-5965
kCNS1992	3-5965
kCangjie	OITGF
kCantonese	gou1
kCowles	1718
kDaeJaweon	1949.220
kDefinition	cakes, pastry
kEACC	23515C
kFanqie	古勞
kFennIndex	244.05
kHanYu	74469.020
kHanyuPinyin	74469.020:gāo
kIRGDaeJaweon	1949.220
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74469.020
kIRGKangXi	1423.330
kIRG_GSource	GE-5461
kIRG_HSource	H-9666
kIRG_JSource	J14-7C62
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-88B6
kIRG_KSource	K2-6E46
kIRG_TSource	T3-5965
kJapanese	コウこなもち
kJIS0213	2,92,66
kJapaneseKun	KONAMOCHI
kJapaneseOn	KOU
kJis1	7270
kKangXi	1423.330
kLau	937
kMandarin	gāo
kMatthews	3283
kMeyerWempe	1198
kMojiJoho	MJ028499 MJ028499:E0101 MJ028498:E0102
kMorohashi	44308 44308:E0101
kPhonetic	640
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+18969+184.9.10
kRSUnicode	184.10
kSBGY	155.14
kSemanticVariant	U+7CD5<kLau,kMatthews,kMeyerWempe
kSMSZD2003Index	782.06
kTaiwanTelegraph	9507
kTotalStrokes	18
kUnihanCore2020	H
kXerox	322:303
kXHC1983	0367.031:gāo