U+9955 "饕" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

饕
Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+9955 "饕" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that represents a mythical, gluttonous beast from ancient mythology, often referred to in the phrase "饕餮" (tāotiè). This creature, depicted with a voracious appetite, symbolizes extreme greed and excess, and the character itself is composed of the radical for food (食) combined with phonetic elements, reflecting its meaning tied to eating and consumption. In modern usage, it also appears in culinary contexts, such as describing a person who is a food lover or gourmand, though its primary cultural resonance remains the mythic monster known for devouring everything in sight.

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General Properties

Code Point
U+9955
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
饕
HTML Hex Encoding
饕
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE9 0xA5 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding
0x9955
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00009955
C/C++/Java Escape
\u9955

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
C5B9
kCCCII
23517E
kCNS1986
1-7C25
kCNS1992
1-7C25
kCangjie
RUOIV
kCantonese
tou1
kCihaiT
1494.602
kCowles
4378
kDaeJaweon
1952.140
kDefinition
gluttonous, greedy, covetous
kEACC
23517E
kFanqie
土刀
kFenn
203I
kFennIndex
503.07
kFourCornerCode
6173.2
kGB0
8750
kGB1
8750
kGSR
1244h
kHangul
도:1N
kHanYu
74476.010
kHanyuPinyin
74476.010:tāo
kIICore
AGT
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
74476.010
kIRG_GSource
G0-7752
kIRG_HSource
HB1-C5B9
kIRG_JSource
J0-7143
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-88FC
kIRG_KSource
K1-5D48
kIRG_TSource
T1-7C25
kJapanese
トウ むさぼる
kKoreanName
2015
kTGH
2013:6470
kJapaneseKun
MUSABORU
kJapaneseOn
TOU
kJis0
8135
kKangXi
1426.100
kKorean
TO
kLau
3079
kMainlandTelegraph
7439
kMandarin
tāo
kMatthews
6147
kMeyerWempe
3153
kMojiJoho
MJ028560 MJ028560:E0101 MJ028561:E0102
kMorohashi
44426 44426:E0101
kPhonetic
484A
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+7226+184.9.13
kRSUnicode
184.13
kSBGY
156.17
kSemanticVariant
U+53E8<kMeyerWempe
kSMSZD2003Index
783.03
kSMSZD2003Readings
tāo粵tou1
kTaiwanTelegraph
7439
kTGHZ2013
361.130:tāo
kTotalStrokes
22
kUnihanCore2020
GHJMT
kXerox
272:376
kXHC1983
1121.010:tāo