U+9979 "饹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9979 "饹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used primarily in the context of food and cooking, specifically as a component of the word "饹饹" or "饹馇," depending on regional usage, where it refers to a type of Chinese noodle or fried food item, such as the Hebei specialty "饹饹" or the crispy bean-based snack "饹馇." In Mandarin, it is pronounced as "gē" or "le," with its radical being "食" (food, eat), and its structure combines the food radical with the phonetic component "各." This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block, encoded in Unicode to support digital representation of traditional and simplified Chinese scripts.

General Properties

Code Point U+9979
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 饹
HTML Hex Encoding 饹
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xA5 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9979
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009979
C/C++/Java Escape \u9979

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 295129
kCangjie NVHER
kCantonese lok3
kDefinition (餄餎) buckwheat noodles
kFourCornerCode 2776.4
kGB8 1338
kHanYu 74451.130
kIICore CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74451.130
kIRGKangXi 1427.311
kIRG_GSource G8-2D46
kTGH 2013:4301
kKangXi 1427.311
kMainlandTelegraph 7397
kMandarin le
kPhonetic 646*
kRSUnicode 184'.6
kTGHZ2013 110.010:gē 212.090:le
kTotalStrokes 9
kTraditionalVariant "餎" U+990E CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0684.050:le