U+9962 "饢" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
饢
U+9962 "饢" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in written Chinese and other East Asian languages, representing the concept of "bread" or "cooked wheaten food," and is particularly recognized as the character for "naan," a type of flatbread commonly found in Central and South Asian cuisines. This character is composed of the radical "食" (food or to eat) on the left, indicating its association with nourishment, and the phonetic component "囊" on the right, which provides a clue to its pronunciation in Mandarin as "náng." In modern usage, it appears in contexts related to food, baking, and cultural references to bread-like staples, especially in regions influenced by Persian and Turkic culinary traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9962 |
| 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 | 饢 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 饢 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xA5 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9962 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009962 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9962 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCangjie | OIJBV |
| kCantonese | nong4 |
| kDefinition | bread (Persian 'naan') |
| kGB1 | 6646 |
| kHanYu | 74479.140 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74479.140:náng,nǎng |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74479.140 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1427.311 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-624E |
| kIRG_HSource | H-9A6D |
| kKangXi | 1427.311 |
| kMandarin | náng |
| kMorohashi | 44488' |
| kRSUnicode | 184.22 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "馕" U+9995 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 783.10 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | nǎng粵nong5 náng粵nong4 |
| kTotalStrokes | 30 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | H |
| kXerox | 321:354 |