U+9958 "饘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
饘
U+9958 "饘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used in classical and literary contexts, representing a type of thick congee or gruel made from grains, often associated with ancient culinary practices and ceremonial offerings. Its composition combines the radical for food or eating (食) with a phonetic element (亶) that hints at its pronunciation in modern Mandarin as "zhān." Historically, this character appears in early Chinese texts such as the "Shuowen Jiezi" dictionary, where it denotes a densely cooked rice porridge, distinct from thinner soups, and it occasionally carries symbolic connotations of simplicity or sustenance in classical poetry and philosophical writings.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9958 |
| 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 | 饘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 饘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xA5 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9958 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009958 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9958 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | F676 |
| kCCCII | 23517A |
| kCNS1986 | 2-6C64 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-6C64 |
| kCangjie | OIYWM |
| kCantonese | zin1 |
| kCihaiT | 1495.101 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1952.200 |
| kDefinition | gruel |
| kEACC | 23517A |
| kFanqie | 諸延 旨善 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8071.7 |
| kGB3 | 9109 |
| kGSR | 0148m |
| kHanYu | 74476.140 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74476.140:zhān |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1952.200 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74476.140 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1426.170 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-7B29 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-F676 |
| kIRG_JSource | J13-7E2A |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-8900 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-6E51 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-6C64 |
| kJapanese | セン かゆ |
| kJIS0213 | 1,94,10 |
| kJapaneseKun | KAYU |
| kJapaneseOn | SEN |
| kJis1 | 7280 |
| kKangXi | 1426.170 |
| kMandarin | zhān |
| kMatthews | 137 |
| kMeyerWempe | 282f |
| kMojiJoho | MJ028572 MJ028572:E0101 MJ028571:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 44433 44433:E0101 |
| kPhonetic | 1298 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+17196+184.9.13 |
| kRSUnicode | 184.13 |
| kSBGY | 137.46 291.08 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+98E6<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "𫗴" U+2B5F4 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 783.04 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | zhān粵zin1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 9508 |
| kTotalStrokes | 21 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |
| kXerox | 317:124 |