U+9942 "饂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9942 "饂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character that belongs to the Kangxi radical group for food or eat, often seen in historical or specialized texts rather than in modern everyday usage. Its structure combines the "飠" (food) component with a phonetic element "坥," and while its exact meaning is obscure and not widely attested in standard dictionaries, it is believed to relate to a type of food or cooking method in classical contexts. This character is primarily of interest to scholars studying ancient Chinese scripts or variant characters, as it represents a glyph that has largely fallen out of common written language but persists in the Unicode standard to ensure digital preservation of all historical CJK ideographs.

General Properties

Code Point U+9942
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 饂
HTML Hex Encoding 饂
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xA5 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9942
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009942
C/C++/Java Escape \u9942

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

kAlternateTotalStrokes 19:J
kCCCII 235154
kCNS1986 E-6671
kCNS1992 3-6671
kCangjie OIABT
kCantonese wan1
kDaeJaweon 1950.070
kDefinition Japanese noodles
kEACC 4D5154
kFourCornerCode 8671.7
kHangul 온:1
kHanYu 74467.171
kIRGDaeJaweon 1950.070
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74467.171
kIRGKangXi 1424.171
kIRG_GSource GE-5463
kIRG_HSource H-9A6B
kIRG_JSource J0-713B
kIRG_KSource K1-6845
kIRG_TSource T3-6671
kJapanese ウン
kJapaneseKun UDON
kJapaneseOn UN
kJis0 8127
kKangXi 1424.171
kKorean ON
kMandarin wēn
kMojiJoho MJ028519 MJ028519:E0101 MJ028516:E0102 MJ028517:E0103 MJ028518:E0104
kMorohashi 44339 44339:E0101 44295:E0103
kNelson 5178
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+7218+184.9.10
kRSUnicode 184.10
kTotalStrokes 17
kUnihanCore2020 HJ