U+998A "馊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+998A "馊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "sour" or "rancid," often used to describe food that has gone bad or spoiled. It is composed of the radical for "food" or "eat" on the left side, indicating its association with edibles, and a phonetic component on the right that suggests its pronunciation in Mandarin as "sōu." In modern usage, the character can also appear in colloquial expressions to convey something unpleasant or stale, both literally and figuratively.

General Properties

Code Point	U+998A
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	馊
HTML Hex Encoding	馊
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xA6 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding	0x998A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000998A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u998a

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	276121
kCangjie	NVHXE
kCantonese	sau1
kDefinition	spoiled, rotten, stale, rancid
kEACC	276121
kFourCornerCode	2774
kGB0	6640
kHanYu	74465.040
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74465.040
kIRGKangXi	1427.311
kIRG_GSource	G0-6248
kTGH	2013:5249
kKangXi	1427.311
kMainlandTelegraph	9600
kMandarin	sōu
kRSUnicode	184'.9
kTGHZ2013	349.020:sōu
kTotalStrokes	12
kTraditionalVariant	"餿" U+993F CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1093.120:sōu