U+997F "饿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+997F "饿" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the concept of hunger or starvation, commonly used in modern Mandarin and other East Asian languages that adopt Chinese characters. Its structure combines the radical "食" or "飠" meaning food or eating, with the phonetic component "我" which provides a clue to its pronunciation as "è" in Mandarin. This character appears in everyday vocabulary such as "饥饿" meaning hungry, and "饿死" meaning to die of starvation, and it carries significant cultural weight in discussions of famine, poverty, and basic human needs throughout Chinese history.
General Properties
Code Point
U+997F
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
饿
HTML Hex Encoding
饿
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE9 0xA5 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding
0x997F
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000997F
C/C++/Java Escape
\u997f
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kCCCII
276077
kCangjie
NVHQI
kCantonese
ngo6
kDefinition
hungry; greedy for; hunger
kEACC
276077
kFourCornerCode
2375
kGB0
2286
kHanYu
74456.030
kHanyuPinlu
è(164)
kIICore
AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
74456.030
kIRG_GSource
G0-3676
kTGH
2013:2012
kKangXi
1427.311
kMainlandTelegraph
7408
kMandarin
è
kPhonetic
967*
kRSUnicode
184'.7
kTGHZ2013
087.080:è
kTotalStrokes
10
kTraditionalVariant
kUnihanCore2020
G
kXHC1983
0285.030:è