U+9963 "饣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
饣
U+9963 "饣" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that serves as the simplified form of the traditional radical "飠" or "食," meaning "food" or "to eat." It appears as the left-side radical in many simplified Chinese characters related to food, dining, or consumption, such as in "饭" (rice or meal) and "饺" (dumpling). This component is derived from the traditional "食" character but simplified to a two-stroke form, reflecting a key orthographic simplification in modern Mandarin Chinese writing. Its use is fundamental in everyday vocabulary, connecting to concepts of nutrition, cooking, and sustenance.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9963 |
| 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 | 饣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 饣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xA5 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9963 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009963 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9963 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 456064 |
| kCangjie | NV |
| kCantonese | sik6 |
| kDefinition | eat, food; radical number 184 |
| kEACC | 456064 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2770 |
| kGB0 | 6627 |
| kHanYu | 74440.012 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74440.011 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1427.311 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-623B |
| kIRG_HSource | H-8BF2 |
| kKangXi | 1427.311 |
| kMandarin | shí |
| kRSUnicode | 184'.0 |
| kTotalStrokes | 3 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "飠" U+98E0 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GH |