U+9989 "馉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9989 "馉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare or historical Chinese character that appears in the Unicode standard as part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block. It is composed of the radical for "food" or "to eat" (飠/饣) combined with a phonetic component, and it is believed to refer to a type of stuffed dumpling or food item, often associated with a specific kind of ravioli-like dish in classical Chinese cuisine. This character is not commonly used in modern written Chinese but may be encountered in historical texts, specialized culinary references, or as part of a complex compound word in older literature.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9989
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	馉
HTML Hex Encoding	馉
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xA6 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9989
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009989
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9989

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	295162
kCangjie	NVBBB
kCantonese	gwat1
kDefinition	(餶飿) glutinous rice
kFourCornerCode	2772.7
kHanYu	74464.110
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74464.110
kIRGKangXi	1427.311
kIRG_GSource	G7-2149
kTGH	2013:7411
kKangXi	1427.311
kMandarin	gǔ
kRSUnicode	184'.10
kTGHZ2013	118.130:gǔ
kTotalStrokes	12
kTraditionalVariant	"餶" U+9936 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0399.030:gǔ