U+99A4 "馤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
馤
U+99A4 "馤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character primarily found in historical or classical texts, where it denotes the fragrance of herbs or the scent of rice plants, often carrying a poetic or literary nuance. Its structure combines the "food" radical (飠) on the left, suggesting a connection to sustenance or cooking, with a phonetic component on the right that provides a hint of its pronunciation, typically read as "ài" in Mandarin. Due to its obscurity in modern usage, it appears mostly in specialized dictionaries or ancient poetry, making it a fascinating example of the depth and specificity of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) character set.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+99A4 |
| 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 | 馤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 馤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xA6 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x99A4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000099A4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u99a4 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 23523D |
| kCNS1986 | E-5967 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-5967 |
| kCangjie | HAAPV |
| kCantonese | oi3 |
| kCihaiT | 1497.402 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1956.100 |
| kFanqie | 於蓋 |
| kGB3 | 9016 |
| kHanYu | 74424.170 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74424.170:ài |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1956.100 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74424.170 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1429.200 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-7A30 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-FCEA |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-028609 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-893F |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-5967 |
| kJapanese | アイ |
| kKangXi | 1429.200 |
| kMandarin | ài |
| kMojiJoho | MJ028609 |
| kMorohashi | 44544 |
| kPhonetic | 510* |
| kRSUnicode | 186.9 |
| kSBGY | 380.10 |
| kTotalStrokes | 18 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | H |