U+998F "馏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
馏
U+998F "馏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily associated with the meaning of distilling or steaming, particularly in the context of heating liquids to produce vapor or cooking by steaming, such as in the preparation of traditional foods like steamed buns or distilled spirits. It forms part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, reflecting its shared use across these East Asian writing systems, where it carries similar connotations related to thermal processing. In modern Chinese, it appears in terms like "蒸馏" meaning distillation, and is commonly encountered in technical or culinary contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+998F |
| 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 | 馏 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 馏 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xA6 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x998F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000998F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u998f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 27607E |
| kCangjie | NVHHW |
| kCantonese | lau6 |
| kDefinition | distill, distillation |
| kEACC | 27607E |
| kFourCornerCode | 8776 |
| kGB0 | 3383 |
| kHanYu | 74468.110 |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74468.110 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1427.311 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4173 |
| kTGH | 2013:2985 |
| kKangXi | 1427.311 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5130 |
| kMandarin | liú |
| kPhonetic | 782* |
| kRSUnicode | 184'.10 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 228.080:liú 229.110:liù |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "餾" U+993E CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0728.070:liú 0730.050:liù |