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食

CJK unified ideograph (U+98DF)
Place unicode_character Q54553159

Facts

18 properties
Instance of
Unicode character, sinogram, legacy Chinese character, kanji character, hanja character, Nôm character[2][3][4][5][6]
CJKV variant character
飠, 𠊊, 𠋑, 𨢁, 𩙿, 𩚀, 𩚁, 𩚃, 𰙰[24]
Cangjie input
OIAV
Catalog
Chart of Standard Forms of Common National Characters, Table of General Standard Chinese Characters, Basic Hanja for educational use, Table of hanja for personal names[11][12][13][14]
Catalog code
1589, 4581[9][10]
Different from
Kangxi radical 184 (⾷), CJK radical eat one (⻝)[15][16]
Grade of kanji
grade 2 kyōiku kanji[22]
HTML entity
食, 食, 食[18][19][20]
Hangul pronunciation
식, 사, 이
Has kanji reading
ショク, くう, くらう, たべる
Ideographic description sequence
食, 〾, ⿱, 亼, 艮
Radical
Kangxi radical 184 (⾷)[23]
Stroke count
+9[21]
Unicode block
CJK Unified Ideographs
Unicode character
食[8]
Unicode character name
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-98DF
Unicode code point
98DF[17]
Writing system
Chinese characters[7]
🏷️ Also known as
en CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-98DF en 食
🔖 Identifiers · 6
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Regular Style CJKV Radical 184 (3).svg ↗
Dictionary of Variant Chinese Characters ID
A04581
Digital Hanja Dictionary ID
14120
GlyphWiki ID
u98df-g, u98df-t, u98df-j, u98df-k
International Encoded Han Character and Variants Database ID
25953
Kanjipedia kanji ID
0003539700

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Summary

食 is an Unicode character[1].

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6w ago · Namoroka · 2026-09-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Hangul pronunciation → 식, 사, 이
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/55112|batch #55112]]: Add Hanja from zonmal.com (bmp, 3): 食 이 new"
  2. 6w ago · Namoroka · 2026-09-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Hangul pronunciation → 식, 사, 이
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Hangul pronunciation: 사, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/274421|batch #274421]]"
  3. 6w ago · Namoroka · 2026-09-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Radical → Kangxi radical 184 (⾷)
    GlyphWiki ID → u98df-g, u98df-t, u98df-j +1
    Different from → Kangxi radical 184 (⾷), CJK radical eat one (⻝)
    Image → Regular Style CJKV Radical 184 (3).svg, Regular Style CJKV Radical 184 (0).svg, 食-oracle.svg +3
    + 24 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/54529|batch #54529]]: P5537 References from Unihan kHangul (5001-9540): 98DF 식 | 98DF 식"
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