U+996C "饬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
饬
U+996C "饬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (Hanzi) that carries the meanings of "to put in order," "to adjust," "to correct," or "to instruct," and is often found in formal or classical Chinese texts. Composed of the radical for "food" or "eat" (飠/食) combined with the phonetic component "敕" (shì), which itself implies command or regulation, the character conveys a sense of proper organization or disciplinary rectification. It is used in words such as "饬令" (chì lìng), meaning to issue a strict order or directive, and appears in historical documents, administrative contexts, or literary descriptions where order and conduct are emphasized.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+996C |
| 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 | 饬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 饬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xA5 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x996C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000996C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u996c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 276068 |
| kCangjie | NVOKS |
| kCantonese | cik1 |
| kDefinition | order; command; give command |
| kEACC | 276068 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2872 |
| kGB0 | 6633 |
| kHanYu | 74444.040 |
| kIICore | CG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74444.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1427.311 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-6241 |
| kTGH | 2013:3754 |
| kKangXi | 1427.311 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7389 |
| kMandarin | chì |
| kRSUnicode | 184'.4 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 046.150:chì |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "飭" U+98ED CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0147.020:chì |