U+996A "饪" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
饪
U+996A "饪" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to cook" or "to boil" and is commonly used in the context of preparing food, particularly in terms of cooking techniques such as steaming or simmering. It is a component of the word "烹饪" (pēng rèn), which translates to "cooking" or "cuisine" in modern Mandarin. The character itself is composed of the radical 饣 (food) and the phonetic component 任 (rèn), indicating its relation to food preparation. Historically, it appears in classical texts and continues to be used in everyday language and culinary contexts across Chinese-speaking regions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+996A |
| 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 | 饪 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 饪 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xA5 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x996A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000996A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u996a |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 276069 |
| kCangjie | NVHG |
| kCantonese | jam6 |
| kDefinition | cooked food; cook until well done |
| kEACC | 276069 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2271 |
| kGB0 | 6631 |
| kHanYu | 74443.220 |
| kIICore | CG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74443.220 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1427.311 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-623F |
| kTGH | 2013:3752 |
| kKangXi | 1427.311 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7387 |
| kMandarin | rèn |
| kPhonetic | 1476* |
| kRSUnicode | 184'.4 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 314.150:rèn |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "飪" U+98EA CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0965.110:rèn |