U+98DF "食" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+98DF "食" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a fundamental Chinese character meaning "eat" or "food," heavily rooted in ancient pictographic origins where it depicts a lid over a container of rice or grain. It serves as a key radical in numerous other characters related to eating, cooking, and nourishment, and appears across various East Asian languages including Japanese and Korean, where it retains similar meanings. In historical contexts, this character also represented concepts of sustenance and livelihood, and it continues to be commonly used in modern writing for words like "restaurant" or "meal."
General Properties
Code Point
U+98DF
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
食
HTML Hex Encoding
食
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE9 0xA3 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding
0x98DF
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000098DF
C/C++/Java Escape
\u98df
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
ADB9
kCCCII
216064
kCNS1986
1-537A
kCNS1992
1-537A
kCangjie
OIAV
kCantonese
sik6
kCihaiT
1489.203
kCowles
3925
kDaeJaweon
1939.100
kDefinition
eat; meal; food; Kangxi radical 184
kEACC
216064
kFanqie
羊吏 乗力
kFenn
363B
kFennIndex
452.02
kFourCornerCode
8073.2
kGB0
4219
kGB1
4219
kGradeLevel
1
kGSR
0921a
kHangul
식:0E
kHanYu
74440.010
kHanyuPinlu
shí(341) shi(152)
kHanyuPinyin
74440.010:shí,sì,yì
kHDZRadBreak
⾷[U+2FB7]:74440.010
kHKGlyph
4537
kIICore
AGTJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
74440.010
kIRG_GSource
G0-4A33
kIRG_HSource
HB1-ADB9
kIRG_JSource
J0-3F29
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-E5C3
kIRG_KSource
K0-635D
kIRG_TSource
T1-537A
kIRG_VSource
V2-9144
kJapanese
ショク ジキ シ ジ イ くう くらう たべる めし
kJoyoKanji
2010
kKoreanEducationHanja
2007
kTGH
2013:1589
kJapaneseKun
KUU KURAU TABERU
kJapaneseOn
SHOKU SHI JIKI
kJis0
3109
kKangXi
1415.290
kKorean
SIK SA
kLau
2790
kMainlandTelegraph
7380
kMandarin
shí
kMatthews
5810
kMeyerWempe
2706
kMojiJoho
MJ028338 MJ028338:E0102 MJ028339:E0103
kMorohashi
44014:E0103
kNelson
5154
kPhonetic
1196
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+2543+184.9.0
kRSUnicode
184.0
kSBGY
357.51 525.16
kSemanticVariant
U+98E0<kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index
778.02
kSMSZD2003Readings
shí粵sik6 sì粵zi6 yì粵ji6
kTaiwanTelegraph
7380
kTang
*jhiək
kTGHZ2013
335.050:shí
kTotalStrokes
9
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kXerox
243:060
kXHC1983
1043.060:shí 1090.040:sì 1370.050:yì