U+68B9 "梹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
梹
U+68B9 "梹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (Hanzi) primarily used in traditional and simplified writing systems, where it serves as a variant form of the character 檳 (bīn), meaning "betel nut" or "areca palm." This ideograph is composed of the wood radical (木) on the left side, suggesting its botanical association, and a phonetic component on the right that hints at its pronunciation. While less common than its standard counterpart, the character appears in historical texts and regional typographical traditions, particularly in contexts discussing the areca nut or related flora. Its encoding in Unicode ensures consistent representation across digital platforms for scholarly and linguistic purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+68B9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 梹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 梹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xA2 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x68B9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000068B9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u68b9 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 223D45 |
| kCNS1986 | E-365F |
| kCNS1992 | 3-365F |
| kCangjie | DOMC |
| kCantonese | ban1 |
| kCihaiT | 702.305 |
| kCowles | 3218 |
| kDefinition | the areca-nut; the betel-nut |
| kEACC | 2D4564 |
| kFennIndex | 412.02 414.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4298.1 |
| kGB5 | 3601 |
| kHanYu | 21216.020 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21216.020:bīng |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21216.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0531.131 |
| kIRG_GSource | G5-4421 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-97EF |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5B6E |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-4BA7 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-365F |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5A26 |
| kJapanese | ビン ヒン |
| kJapaneseKun | BINROUSHI |
| kJapaneseOn | BIN HIN |
| kJis0 | 5978 |
| kKangXi | 0531.131 |
| kMandarin | bīn |
| kMatthews | 5263 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2272 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ014026 |
| kMorohashi | 14909 |
| kPhonetic | 1018 1052 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+5201+75.4.7 |
| kRSUnicode | 75.7 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+6AB3<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 320.02 |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJ |
| kVietnamese | biêng |
| kXHC1983 | 0075.012:bīn 0076.032:bīng |