U+9970 "饰" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9970 "饰" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) primarily used in simplified Chinese script, where it means "decoration," "ornament," "to adorn," or "to dress up." It is derived from the traditional character 飾, which combines the radical for "food" or "eat" (飠) with the phonetic component 式 (shì), though in its modern simplified form, the left radical is 饣. This character appears frequently in everyday vocabulary, such as in the word 装饰 (zhuāngshì) meaning "decoration," or 首饰 (shǒushì) meaning "jewelry," and it conveys the concept of adding beauty, embellishment, or superficial finish to an object or appearance.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9970
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	饰
HTML Hex Encoding	饰
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xA5 0xB0
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9970
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009970
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9970

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Han
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes
Unified Ideograph	Yes

Unihan Properties

kCCCII	27606F
kCangjie	NVOLB
kCantonese	sik1
kDefinition	decorate, ornament, adorn
kEACC	27606F
kFourCornerCode	2872
kGB0	4246
kHanYu	74447.070
kHanyuPinlu	shì(40)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74447.070
kIRGKangXi	1427.311
kIRG_GSource	G0-4A4E
kTGH	2013:1201
kKangXi	1427.311
kMainlandTelegraph	7395
kMandarin	shì
kRSUnicode	184'.5
kTGHZ2013	337.040:shì
kTotalStrokes	8
kTraditionalVariant	"飾" U+98FE CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1054.050:shì