U+998B "馋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
馋
U+998B "馋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily conveys the meaning of being gluttonous, greedy for food, or having an intense craving for something delicious to eat. It is composed of the radical for "food" on the left, indicating its association with eating, and a phonetic component on the right that suggests its pronunciation as "chan" in Mandarin. Beyond its literal sense of salivation or longing for tasty dishes, the character can also extend metaphorically to describe a strong desire or yearning for other pleasurable things, and it is commonly used in everyday Chinese language to describe someone as being "hoggish" or having a "sweet tooth."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+998B |
| 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 | 馋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 馋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xA6 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x998B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000998B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u998b |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 276127 |
| kCangjie | NVNUY |
| kCantonese | caam4 |
| kDefinition | gluttonous, greedy; lewd, lecherous |
| kEACC | 276127 |
| kFourCornerCode | 8773 |
| kGB0 | 1886 |
| kHanYu | 74466.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu | chán(11) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74466.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1427.311 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3276 |
| kTGH | 2013:2725 |
| kKangXi | 1427.311 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 7443 |
| kMandarin | chán |
| kPhonetic | 24* |
| kRSUnicode | 184'.9 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 036.170:chán |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "饞" U+995E CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0118.040:chán |