U+9965 "饥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
饥
U+9965 "饥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "hunger" or "famine," often used in contexts relating to starvation or a lack of food. It is composed of the radical "饣" (simplified form of "食," meaning food) on the left, indicating its semantic connection to eating, and the phonetic component "几" on the right, which contributes to its pronunciation (jī in Mandarin). This character appears in classical and modern Chinese texts, as well as in other East Asian languages like Japanese and Korean, where it similarly conveys the concept of being hungry or experiencing a food shortage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9965 |
| 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 | 饥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 饥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xA5 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9965 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009965 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9965 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 276065 |
| kCangjie | NVHN |
| kCantonese | gei1 |
| kDefinition | hunger, starving; hungry; a famine |
| kEACC | 276065 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2771 |
| kGB0 | 2802 |
| kHanYu | 74441.060 |
| kHanyuPinlu | jī(37) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74441.060 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1427.311 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3C22 |
| kTGH | 2013:299 |
| kKangXi | 1427.311 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7382 |
| kMandarin | jī |
| kPhonetic | 598* |
| kRSUnicode | 184'.2 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 778.07 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 153.060,153.070:jī |
| kTotalStrokes | 5 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "飢" U+98E2 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "饑" U+9951 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0523.040:jī |