U+993F "餿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
餿
U+993F "餿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily refers to food that has gone sour, spoiled, or become rancid, often describing the state or smell of stale or decaying cooked rice or other edibles. This character combines the radical for "food" or "eat" on the left side, indicating its semantic connection to comestibles, with a phonetic component on the right that provides a clue to its pronunciation, which in Mandarin is "sōu." It is commonly used in daily language to describe something that has turned bad due to age or improper storage, and it appears in both written texts and conversational contexts across Chinese-speaking regions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+993F |
| 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 | 餿 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 餿 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xA4 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x993F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000993F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u993f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C349 |
| kCCCII | 216121 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7773 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7773 |
| kCangjie | OIHXE |
| kCantonese | sau1 |
| kCihaiT | 1494.107 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1949.370 |
| kDefinition | spoiled, rotten, stale, rancid |
| kEACC | 216121 |
| kFanqie | 所鳩 |
| kFenn | 681E |
| kFennIndex | 473.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8774.7 |
| kGB1 | 6640 |
| kHanYu | 74465.030 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74465.030:sōu |
| kHKGlyph | 4563 |
| kIICore | ATHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1949.370 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74465.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1424.070 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-6248 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C349 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-028507 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-88C4 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-6E48 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7773 |
| kJapanese | シュウ シュ |
| kKangXi | 1424.070 |
| kMandarin | sōu |
| kMatthews | 5479 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ028507 MJ028507:E0100 MJ028506:E0101 |
| kMorohashi | 44323 44323:E0100 |
| kPhonetic | 1143 |
| kRSUnicode | 184.10 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "馊" U+998A CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 781.15 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | sōu粵sau1,suk1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 9511 |
| kTotalStrokes | 17 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |
| kXerox | 301:162 |