U+997F "饿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+997F "饿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the concept of hunger or starvation, commonly used in modern Mandarin and other East Asian languages that adopt Chinese characters. Its structure combines the radical "食" or "飠" meaning food or eating, with the phonetic component "我" which provides a clue to its pronunciation as "è" in Mandarin. This character appears in everyday vocabulary such as "饥饿" meaning hungry, and "饿死" meaning to die of starvation, and it carries significant cultural weight in discussions of famine, poverty, and basic human needs throughout Chinese history.

General Properties

Code Point	U+997F
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	饿
HTML Hex Encoding	饿
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xA5 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding	0x997F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000997F
C/C++/Java Escape	\u997f

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	276077
kCangjie	NVHQI
kCantonese	ngo6
kDefinition	hungry; greedy for; hunger
kEACC	276077
kFourCornerCode	2375
kGB0	2286
kHanYu	74456.030
kHanyuPinlu	è(164)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74456.030
kIRGKangXi	1427.311
kIRG_GSource	G0-3676
kTGH	2013:2012
kKangXi	1427.311
kMainlandTelegraph	7408
kMandarin	è
kPhonetic	967*
kRSUnicode	184'.7
kTGHZ2013	087.080:è
kTotalStrokes	10
kTraditionalVariant	"餓" U+9913 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0285.030:è