U+9983 "馃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9983 "馃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in written Chinese, primarily representing a type of traditional pastry or snack known as "guǒ" or "guo," often referring to a fried or baked cake made from grain-based dough. It appears in classical and modern contexts for foods like sesame seed cakes or fried pastries, and is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph block, which standardizes characters shared across these writing systems. While less common in everyday simplified Chinese, it remains recognized in culinary terms and historical texts, contributing to the rich lexicon of East Asian food culture.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9983
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	馃
HTML Hex Encoding	馃
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xA6 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9983
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009983
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9983

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	295140
kCangjie	NVWD
kCantonese	gwo2
kDefinition	cakes, biscuits, pastry
kFourCornerCode	2679.4
kGB8	1342
kHanYu	74459.060
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74459.060
kIRGKangXi	1427.311
kIRG_GSource	G8-2D4A
kTGH	2013:4932
kKangXi	1427.311
kMainlandTelegraph	9606
kMandarin	guǒ
kRSUnicode	184'.8
kTGHZ2013	126.150:guǒ
kTotalStrokes	11
kTraditionalVariant	"餜" U+991C CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0427.040:guǒ