U+998C "馌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+998C "馌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and historically specific Chinese character that represents a type of food offering or meal, particularly one brought to laborers in the field, often associated with a tradition of hospitality or ritual sustenance for farmers. It is composed of the radical for food or eat, 食, combined with a phonetic component, and while it is virtually unused in modern standard Chinese, it appears in classical texts and dictionaries as part of the literary vocabulary related to agrarian customs or ceremonial meals. This character thus serves as a linguistic artifact, preserving a specialized cultural practice from ancient Chinese society.

General Properties

Code Point	U+998C
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	馌
HTML Hex Encoding	馌
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xA6 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding	0x998C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000998C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u998c

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	295161
kCangjie	NVGIT
kCantonese	jip3
kDefinition	carry meal to workers in field
kFourCornerCode	2471.7
kHanYu	74467.041
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74467.041
kIRGKangXi	1427.311
kIRG_GSource	GHZR-84758.18
kTGH	2013:7569
kKangXi	1427.311
kMandarin	yè
kPhonetic	508*
kRSUnicode	184'.10
kTGHZ2013	430.130:yè
kTotalStrokes	13
kTraditionalVariant	"饁" U+9941 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1350.030:yè