U+9972 "饲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
饲
U+9972 "饲" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to feed" or "to raise" animals, often used in the context of providing food for livestock or domestic pets. It is composed of the radical 饣 (food, a simplified form of 食) on the left, indicating its association with eating or nourishment, and the phonetic component 司 on the right. This character appears in common words such as 饲养 (sìyǎng, meaning "to raise or breed" animals) and 饲料 (sìliào, meaning "feed" or "fodder"). In simplified Chinese, it is the standard form of the traditional character 飼, reflecting a systematic simplification where the food radical is written with fewer strokes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9972 |
| 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 | 饲 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 饲 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xA5 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9972 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009972 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9972 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 27606C |
| kCangjie | NVSMR |
| kCantonese | zi6 |
| kDefinition | raise animals; feed; nourish |
| kEACC | 27606C |
| kFourCornerCode | 2772 |
| kGB0 | 4339 |
| kHanYu | 74449.030 |
| kHanyuPinlu | sì(36) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74449.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1427.311 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4B47 |
| kTGH | 2013:1203 |
| kKangXi | 1427.311 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7393 |
| kMandarin | sì |
| kRSUnicode | 184'.5 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 347.100:sì |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "飼" U+98FC CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 1091.010:sì |