U+9959 "饙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
饙
U+9959 "饙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character belonging to the radical for food or eating. It is primarily defined as meaning "to steam rice" or "to cook rice," specifically referring to the process of steaming grain to prepare it for consumption. This character originates from classical Chinese texts and is considered a historical or literary term rather than a modern everyday word. In contemporary usage, it is largely obsolete, found mostly in ancient dictionaries or specialized philological studies of Chinese script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9959 |
| 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 | 饙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 饙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xA5 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9959 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009959 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9959 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | F556 |
| kCCCII | 235176 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-6A64 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-6A64 |
| kCangjie | OIJTC |
| kCantonese | fan1 |
| kCihaiT | 1495.102 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1952.220 |
| kFanqie | 府文 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8478.6 |
| kGB5 | 8869 |
| kGSR | 0437j |
| kHanYu | 74472.070 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74472.070:fēn |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1952.220 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74472.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1426.190 |
| kIRG_GSource | G5-7865 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-F556 |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-6871 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-88EC |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-6E52 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-6A64 |
| kJapanese | フン |
| kJapaneseKun | MUSU |
| kJapaneseOn | FUN |
| kJis1 | 7281 |
| kKangXi | 1426.190 |
| kMandarin | fēn |
| kMojiJoho | MJ028574 MJ028574:E0101 MJ028573:E0102 MJ028575:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 44435:E0103 |
| kPhonetic | 1020* |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+22894+184.9.12 |
| kRSUnicode | 184.13 |
| kSBGY | 111.15 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "𱄀" U+31100 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kTotalStrokes | 20 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |