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Source: Hanazono Mincho A Regular

U+9963 CJK Unified Ideograph-9963

U+9963 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+4E00 to U+9FFF CJK Unified Ideographs in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Han script. The Unihan Database defines it as eat, food; radical number 184. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is shí.

The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+9963 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Radical 184 or radical eat (食部) meaning "eat" or "food" is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 9 strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 403 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
食 is also the 185th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, with the simplified left component form 饣 and its traditional form 飠 listed as its associated indexing components.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	39267
UTF-8	E9 A5 A3
UTF-16	99 63
UTF-32	00 00 99 63
URL-Quoted	%E9%A5%A3
HTML hex reference	饣
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	é¥£
Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes)	8B F2
Encoding: GB2312 (hex bytes)	E2 BB
Encoding: GBK (hex bytes)	E2 BB
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)	E2 BB
Encoding: HZ (hex bytes)	7E 7B 62 3B 7E 7D
Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes)	1B 24 28 41 62 3B 1B 28 42
Pīnyīn	shí

Related Characters

CJK Radical C-Simplified Eat

Confusables

CJK Radical C-Simplified Eat

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age (age)	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na)	CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9963
Unicode 1 Name (na1)	—
Block (blk)	CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category (gc)	Other Letter
Script (sc)	Han
Bidirectional Category (bc)	Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc)	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt)	none
Decomposition Mapping (dm)	CJK Unified Ideograph-9963
Lowercase (Lower)	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc)	CJK Unified Ideograph-9963
Lowercase Mapping (lc)	CJK Unified Ideograph-9963
Uppercase (Upper)	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc)	CJK Unified Ideograph-9963
Uppercase Mapping (uc)	CJK Unified Ideograph-9963
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc)	CJK Unified Ideograph-9963
Titlecase Mapping (tc)	CJK Unified Ideograph-9963
Case Folding (cf)	CJK Unified Ideograph-9963
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)	✘
Alphabetic (Alpha)	✔
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)	✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)	✘
Composition Exclusion (CE)	✘
Case Ignorable (CI)	✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)	✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)	✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)	✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)	✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)	✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)	✘
Cased (Cased)	✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)	✘
Dash (Dash)	✘
Deprecated (Dep)	✘
Diacritic (Dia)	✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)	✘
Emoji Component (EComp)	✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod)	✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres)	✘
Emoji (Emoji)	✘
Extender (Ext)	✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)	✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC)	CJK Unified Ideograph-9963
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB)	Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)	✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)	✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)	✘
Hex Digit (Hex)	✘
Hyphen (Hyphen)	✘
ID Continue (IDC)	✔
ID Start (IDS)	✔
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)	✘
IDSU (IDSU)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start)	0
Ideographic (Ideo)	✔
InCB (InCB)	None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)	—
Indic Positional Category (InPC)	NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC)	Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)	—
Join Control (Join_C)	✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE)	✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM)	✘
Math (Math)	✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)	✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC)	Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC)	Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF)	CJK Unified Ideograph-9963
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC)	Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF)	CJK Unified Ideograph-9963
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC)	Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)	✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)	✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC)	✘
Other ID Start (OIDS)	✘
Other Lowercase (OLower)	✘
Other Math (OMath)	✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper)	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)	✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)	✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)	✘
Quotation Mark (QMark)	✘
Regional Indicator (RI)	✘
Radical (Radical)	✘
Sentence Break (SB)	Other Letter
Soft Dotted (SD)	✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm)	✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term)	✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)	✔
Variation Selector (VS)	✘
Word Break (WB)	Other
White Space (WSpace)	✘
XID Continue (XIDC)	✔
XID Start (XIDS)	✔
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)	✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)	✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)	✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)	✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb)	CJK Unified Ideograph-9963
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt)	None
East Asian Width (ea)	wide
Hangul Syllable Type (hst)	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)	—
Joining Group (jg)	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt)	Non Joining
Line Break (lb)	Ideographic
Numeric Type (nt)	none
Numeric Value (nv)	not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf)	CJK Unified Ideograph-9963
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo)	U
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII)	456064
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie)	NV
kCantonese (kCantonese)	sik6
Unihan Definition (kDefinition)	eat, food; radical number 184
kEACC (kEACC)	456064
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode)	2770
kGB0 (kGB0)	6627
kHanYu (kHanYu)	74440.012
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian)	74440.011
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi)	1427.311
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource)	G0-623B
kIRG_HSource (kIRG_HSource)	H-8BF2
kKangXi (kKangXi)	1427.311
kMandarin (kMandarin)	shí
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode)	184'.0
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes)	3
Traditional Variant (kTraditionalVariant)	U+98E0
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020)	GH