U+9991 "馑" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9991 "馑" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese Han character representing the idea of famine, scarcity, or dearth, particularly in relation to food and agricultural hardship. Composed of the radical 食 (meaning "food" or "to eat") and the phonetic component 堇, it appears in classical and modern Chinese texts to denote periods of severe food shortage or starvation, often used in compounds such as 饥馑 (jījǐn, meaning "famine" or "hunger"). This character holds historical and cultural significance in East Asian literature, reflecting agrarian societies' deep concern with crop failure and subsistence crises.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9991
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	馑
HTML Hex Encoding	馑
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xA6 0x91
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9991
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009991
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9991

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	29516D
kCangjie	NVTLM
kCantonese	gan2
kDefinition	time of famine or crop failure
kEACC	29516D
kFourCornerCode	2471
kGB0	6643
kHanYu	74470.010
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74470.010
kIRGKangXi	1427.311
kIRG_GSource	G0-624B
kTGH	2013:5777
kKangXi	1427.311
kMainlandTelegraph	7431
kMandarin	jǐn
kRSUnicode	184'.11
kTGHZ2013	176.140:jǐn
kTotalStrokes	14
kTraditionalVariant	"饉" U+9949 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0589.010:jǐn