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U+998A CJK Unified Ideograph-998A

U+998A was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (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 spoiled, rotten, stale, rancid. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is sōu.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. In text U+998A behaves as Ideographic regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	39306
UTF-8	E9 A6 8A
UTF-16	99 8A
UTF-32	00 00 99 8A
URL-Quoted	%E9%A6%8A
HTML-Escape	馊
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	é¦
Pīnyīn	sōu

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name	CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-998A
Unicode 1 Name	—
Block	CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category	Other Letter
Script	Han
Bidirectional Category	Left To Right
Combining Class	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type	None
Decomposition Mapping	CJK Unified Ideograph-998A
Lowercase	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping	CJK Unified Ideograph-998A
Lowercase Mapping	CJK Unified Ideograph-998A
Uppercase	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping	CJK Unified Ideograph-998A
Uppercase Mapping	CJK Unified Ideograph-998A
Simple Titlecase Mapping	CJK Unified Ideograph-998A
Titlecase Mapping	CJK Unified Ideograph-998A
Case Folding	CJK Unified Ideograph-998A
ASCII Hex Digit	✘
Alphabetic	✔
Bidi Control	✘
Bidi Mirrored	✘
Composition Exclusion	✘
Case Ignorable	✘
Changes When Casefolded	✘
Changes When Casemapped	✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded	✘
Changes When Lowercased	✘
Changes When Titlecased	✘
Changes When Uppercased	✘
Cased	✘
Full Composition Exclusion	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Dash	✘
Deprecated	✘
Diacritic	✘
Emoji Modifier Base	✘
Emoji Component	✘
Emoji Modifier	✘
Emoji Presentation	✘
Emoji	✘
Extender	✘
Extended Pictographic	✘
FC NFKC Closure	CJK Unified Ideograph-998A
Grapheme Cluster Break	Any
Grapheme Base	✔
Grapheme Extend	✘
Grapheme Link	✘
Hex Digit	✘
Hyphen	✘
ID Continue	✔
ID Start	✔
IDS Binary Operator	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and	✘
Ideographic	✔
Indic Mantra Category	—
Indic Positional Category	NA
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Jamo Short Name	—
Join Control	✘
Logical Order Exception	✘
Math	✘
Noncharacter Code Point	✘
NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Casefold	CJK Unified Ideograph-998A
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Other Alphabetic	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point	✘
Other Grapheme Extend	✘
Other ID Continue	✘
Other ID Start	✘
Other Lowercase	✘
Other Math	✘
Other Uppercase	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark	✘
Pattern Syntax	✘
Pattern White Space	✘
Quotation Mark	✘
Regional Indicator	✘
Radical	✘
Sentence Break	Other Letter
Soft Dotted	✘
Sentence Terminal	✘
Terminal Punctuation	✘
Unified Ideograph	✔
Variation Selector	✘
Word Break	Other
White Space	✘
XID Continue	✔
XID Start	✔
Expands On NFC	✘
Expands On NFD	✘
Expands On NFKC	✘
Expands On NFKD	✘
Bidi Paired Bracket	CJK Unified Ideograph-998A
Bidi Paired Bracket Type	None
East Asian Width	Wide
Hangul Syllable Type	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment	—
Joining Group	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type	Non Joining
Line Break	Ideographic
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	not a number
Simple Case Folding	CJK Unified Ideograph-998A
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation	U
CCCII Mapping	276121
Cangjie Input Code	NVHXE
kCantonese	sau1
Unihan Definition	spoiled, rotten, stale, rancid
kEACC	276121
kFourCornerCode	2774
kGB0	6640
kHanYu	74465.040
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74465.040
kIRGKangXi	1427.311
kIRG_GSource	G0-6248
kKangXi	1427.311
kMainlandTelegraph	9600
kMandarin	sōu
Radical Stroke Count (KangXi)	184.9
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode)	184'.9
kTGH	2013:5249
kTGHZ2013	349.020:sōu
Stroke Number	12
Traditional Variant	U+993F
UnihanCore2020 Set	G
kXHC1983	1093.120:sōu