U+992E "餮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

餮
Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+992E "餮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that represents a mythical, gluttonous beast often associated with greed and voracious eating. In Chinese mythology, the "taotie" (餮) is a creature commonly depicted on ancient bronze vessels from the Shang and Zhou dynasties, symbolizing insatiable hunger and sometimes serving as a warning against excess. The character itself combines the radical for food or eat (飠) with a phonetic component, reinforcing its connection to consumption and appetite. Today, it is most frequently encountered in the compound word "饕餮" (tāotiè), which describes a person with an enormous appetite or, more figuratively, a voracious desire for wealth or material goods.

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General Properties

Code Point
U+992E
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
餮
HTML Hex Encoding
餮
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE9 0xA4 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding
0x992E
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000992E
C/C++/Java Escape
\u992e

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

kBigFive
C34B
kCCCII
23514F
kCNS1986
1-7775
kCNS1992
1-7775
kCangjie
MHOIV
kCantonese
tit3
kCihaiT
1493.603
kCowles
4368
kDaeJaweon
1948.240
kDefinition
a legendary animal; a greedy person
kEACC
23514F
kFanqie
他結
kFenn
281I
kFennIndex
520.03
kFourCornerCode
1873.2
kGB0
8749
kGB1
8749
kGSR
0453m
kHangul
철:1N
kHanYu
74464.020
kHanyuPinyin
74464.020:tiè
kIICore
AGT
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
74464.020
kIRG_GSource
G0-7751
kIRG_HSource
HB1-C34B
kIRG_JSource
J0-7138
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-88AA
kIRG_KSource
K1-6F4B
kIRG_TSource
T1-7775
kJapanese
テツ テチ テン デン
kKoreanName
2015
kTGH
2013:6327
kJapaneseOn
TETSU TEN DEN
kJis0
8124
kKangXi
1422.390
kKorean
CHEL
kMainlandTelegraph
7421
kMandarin
tiè
kMatthews
6331
kMeyerWempe
3119
kMojiJoho
MJ028476 MJ028476:E0101 MJ028477:E0102
kMorohashi
44268 44268:E0101
kPhonetic
1338
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+7215+184.9.9
kRSUnicode
184.9
kSBGY
493.48
kSMSZD2003Index
781.10
kSMSZD2003Readings
tiè粵tit3
kTaiwanTelegraph
7421
kTGHZ2013
367.110:tiè
kTotalStrokes
18
kUnihanCore2020
GHJMT
kXerox
301:071
kXHC1983
1144.010:tiè