U+996E "饮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
饮
U+996E "饮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the concept of drinking, particularly liquids such as water, tea, or alcohol. It is a simplified form of the traditional character "飲," and is widely used in modern Mandarin Chinese, appearing in common words like "饮水" meaning drinking water or "饮料" meaning beverage. The character combines the radical "飠" (food or eat) with a phonetic component, reflecting its original meaning related to consuming liquid refreshment. As part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, it is used across multiple East Asian languages with similar meanings.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+996E |
| 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 | 饮 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 饮 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xA5 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x996E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000996E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u996e |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 27606A |
| kCangjie | NVNO |
| kCantonese | jam2 |
| kDefinition | drink; swallow; kind of drink |
| kEACC | 27606A |
| kFourCornerCode | 2778 |
| kGB0 | 5091 |
| kHanYu | 74445.080 |
| kHanyuPinlu | yǐn(43) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74445.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1427.311 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-527B |
| kTGH | 2013:824 |
| kKangXi | 1427.311 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7390 |
| kMandarin | yǐn |
| kPhonetic | 467* |
| kRSUnicode | 184'.4 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 438.030:yǐn 438.080:yìn |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "飲" U+98F2 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 1379.010:yǐn 1383.040:yìn |