U+994A "饊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
饊
U+994A "饊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character primarily used to mean a type of fried crumbly pastry or rice cake, often associated with a snack made from glutinous rice flour that is deep fried into thin, crispy strands. Its semantic component is the "food" radical 飠 (in its simplified form, 食), indicating its connection to edible items, while the phonetic component suggests its pronunciation, which is "sǎn" in Mandarin Chinese. This character appears in classical Chinese texts describing culinary traditions, particularly in the context of festival foods or daily snacks in southern Chinese cuisine.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+994A |
| 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 | 饊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 饊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xA5 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x994A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000994A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u994a |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 235175 |
| kCangjie | OITBK |
| kCantonese | saan2 |
| kCihaiT | 1494.206 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1950.420 |
| kDefinition | fried round cakes of wheat flour |
| kFanqie | 蘇旱 |
| kGB1 | 6644 |
| kHanYu | 74473.050 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74473.050:sǎn |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1950.420 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74473.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1425.140 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-624C |
| kIRG_HSource | H-A06C |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-028538 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-88ED |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-6E4D |
| kIRG_TSource | T4-653A |
| kJapanese | サン |
| kJapaneseKun | OKOSHI |
| kJapaneseOn | SAN |
| kKangXi | 1425.140 |
| kKorean | CAN |
| kMandarin | sǎn |
| kMatthews | 5423 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2530b |
| kMojiJoho | MJ028538 MJ028537:E0100 MJ028538:E0101 |
| kMorohashi | 44377 44377:E0101 |
| kPhonetic | 1105 |
| kRSUnicode | 184.12 |
| kSBGY | 284.08 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+7CE4<kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "馓" U+9993 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 782.12 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | sǎn粵saan2 |
| kTotalStrokes | 20 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | H |
| kXerox | 321:353 |