U+9979 "饹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
饹
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
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 |