U+6912 "椒" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
椒
U+6912 "椒" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to pepper plants, especially the pungent ones like chili pepper or Sichuan pepper, and is also used to denote the fruit or spice derived from them. It appears in words such as "辣椒" meaning chili pepper and "花椒" meaning Sichuan pepper, and its meaning extends metaphorically to things that are hot or spicy in flavor. The character is composed of the "木" (tree or wood) radical on the left, suggesting a plant, and the phonetic component "叔" on the right. It is used in both simplified and traditional Chinese writing systems and appears across various East Asian languages including Japanese and Korean, where it carries similar botanical and culinary meanings.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6912 |
| 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 | 椒 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 椒 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xA4 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6912 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006912 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6912 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B4D4 |
| kCCCII | 21447C |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5F79 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5F79 |
| kCangjie | DYFE |
| kCantonese | ziu1 |
| kCihaiT | 705.601 |
| kCowles | 4575 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0924.060 |
| kDefinition | pepper, spices |
| kEACC | 21447C |
| kFanqie | 即消 |
| kFenn | 123B |
| kFennIndex | 48.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4794.0 |
| kGB0 | 2923 |
| kGB1 | 2923 |
| kGSR | 1031q |
| kHangul | 초:0N |
| kHanYu | 21230.030 |
| kHanyuPinlu | jiāo(12) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21230.030:jiāo |
| kHKGlyph | 1952 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0924.060 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21230.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0536.160 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3D37 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B4D4 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5C25 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-EDE7 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7521 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5F79 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5A39 |
| kJapanese | ショウ はじかみ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:2570 |
| kJapaneseKun | HAJIKAMI |
| kJapaneseOn | SHOU |
| kJis0 | 6005 |
| kKangXi | 0536.160 |
| kKorean | CHO |
| kLau | 1521 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 2786 |
| kMandarin | jiāo |
| kMatthews | 729 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3390 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ014124 |
| kMorohashi | 15029 |
| kNelson | 2286 |
| kPhonetic | 1259 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+5222+75.4.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 75.8 |
| kSBGY | 148.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 323.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | jiāo粵ziu1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 2786 |
| kTang | tziɛu |
| kTGHZ2013 | 168.180:jiāo |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | tiêu |
| kXerox | 264:244 |
| kXHC1983 | 0566.050:jiāo |