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𩛤

cjk unified ideograph-296e4

Food character

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𩛤 is a shortened form of 𩜳; the Jiyun, a Chinese dictionary organized by sound, glosses the pair as “food” and was completed in 1039. An earlier character dictionary, Longkan Shoujian, made to help readers with Buddhist texts, records 𩛤 in 997 with a note on its common pronunciation.

Text symbol

What 𩛤 means

𩛤 is the cjk unified ideograph-296e4. Unicode classifies it as a letter and files it in the CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B block; this site shelves it under Chinese, Japanese & Korean.

Its appearance depends on the font and text styling.

How it is encoded

𩛤 is a single code point, U296E4. In HTML that is 𩛤, and in CSS \296E4.

Who writes 𩛤

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Questions people ask

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Why does 𩛤 show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type or find 𩛤

Search it as
yong · food · 𩜳
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 296E4, then AltX to get 𩛤.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “cjk unified ideograph-296e4”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 296e4, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𩛤
CSS
\296E4
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𩛤
HTML hex
𩛤
CSS content
content: "\296E4";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%A9%9B%A4
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

2

Chinese characters99,354 symbols

Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols