U+9981 "馁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9981 "馁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used in traditional and simplified Chinese writing, where it carries the meanings of "hungry," "disheartened," or "lacking in spirit." Composed of the radical for food (飠) and a phonetic component, it appears in classical and modern texts to describe physical hunger or a state of discouragement and loss of courage. This character is encoded in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, ensuring its consistent representation across digital systems that support East Asian typography.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9981
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	馁
HTML Hex Encoding	馁
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xA6 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9981
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009981
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9981

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	276075
kCangjie	NVBV
kCantonese	noi5
kDefinition	hungry, starving, famished
kEACC	276075
kFourCornerCode	2274
kGB0	3657
kHanYu	74457.040
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74457.040
kIRGKangXi	1427.311
kIRG_GSource	G0-4459
kTGH	2013:2013
kKangXi	1427.311
kMainlandTelegraph	7407
kMandarin	něi
kRSUnicode	184'.7
kTGHZ2013	263.170:něi
kTotalStrokes	10
kTraditionalVariant	"餒" U+9912 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0822.060:něi