U+99B6 "馶" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+99B6 "馶" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and obscure Chinese character that historically conveys meanings related to a type of medicinal herb or a variant form of certain traditional remedies. Its structure combines the radical 饣 (food or eat) with the phonetic component 旨 (meaning purpose or delicious), suggesting a possible connection to substances used in ancient herbal preparations. This character is not commonly used in modern Chinese or Japanese writing, and its specific definitions can vary across different historical dictionaries and texts. As part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, it represents a linguistic artifact that highlights the complexity and historical depth of written Chinese.

General Properties

Code Point U+99B6
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 馶
HTML Hex Encoding 馶
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xA6 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding 0x99B6
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000099B6
C/C++/Java Escape \u99b6

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 235250
kCNS1986 E-4A63
kCNS1992 3-4A63
kCangjie SFJE
kCantonese zi1
kDaeJaweon 1959.050
kFanqie 章移 巨支 施智 居企
kGB3 2985
kHangul 지:N
kHanYu 74543.060
kHanyuPinyin 74543.060:zhī,shì
kIRGDaeJaweon 1959.050
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74543.060
kIRGKangXi 1434.170
kIRG_GSource G3-3D75
kIRG_JSource JMJ-028630
kIRG_KPSource KP1-896C
kIRG_KSource K2-6E61
kIRG_TSource T3-4A63
kJapanese キ ギ シ
kKoreanName 2015
kKangXi 1434.170
kMandarin zhī
kMojiJoho MJ028630
kMorohashi 44598
kRSUnicode 187.4
kSBGY 041.02 044.10 348.43 349.22
kTotalStrokes 14