U+9944 "饄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9944 "饄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character primarily found in historical or classical texts. It is composed of the radical "食" meaning "food" or "to eat" on the left, and a phonetic component "堂" on the right, suggesting a pronunciation similar to "táng" in Mandarin. The character can be interpreted to mean "to offer food" or "to feast," often in the context of sacrificial rites or formal banquets in ancient literature. While it is not common in modern everyday Chinese, it appears in some specialized dictionaries and older written works, where it conveys a sense of ceremonial dining or the act of providing sustenance with reverence. Its inclusion in the CJK Unified Ideographs block of Unicode ensures that it remains accessible for digital representation of classical Chinese content.

General Properties

Code Point U+9944
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 饄
HTML Hex Encoding 饄
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xA5 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9944
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009944
C/C++/Java Escape \u9944

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 23516E
kCNS1986 E-5B69
kCNS1992 3-5B69
kCangjie OIFBG
kCantonese tong4
kDaeJaweon 1950.100
kHanYu 74470.120
kIRGDaeJaweon 1950.100
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74470.120
kIRGKangXi 1424.190
kIRG_GSource GE-5464
kIRG_JSource JMJ-028521
kIRG_KPSource KP1-88D3
kIRG_TSource T3-5B69
kJapanese トウ
kKangXi 1424.190
kMandarin táng
kMojiJoho MJ028521 MJ028520:E0100 MJ028521:E0101
kMorohashi 44341 44341:E0101
kRSUnicode 184.11
kTotalStrokes 19