U+69DF "槟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
槟
U+69DF "槟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to the areca palm or betel nut tree, specifically the species Areca catechu, whose seeds are commonly chewed as a mild stimulant in many Asian cultures. In simplified Chinese, it is often used in the word "槟榔" (bīngláng), meaning betel nut, and is also found in the name of the city of Binzhou in Hunan province, though its usage is less common outside of these contexts. The character combines the "wood" radical (木) on the left with a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its botanical nature. As part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, it is encoded for digital text representation across multiple East Asian languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+69DF |
| 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 | 槟 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 槟 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xA7 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x69DF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000069DF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u69df |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 274564 |
| kCangjie | DJOC |
| kCantonese | ban1 |
| kDefinition | betel-nut, areca nut |
| kEACC | 274564 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4398 |
| kGB0 | 7336 |
| kHanYu | 21270.050 |
| kIICore | CG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21270.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0546.251 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-6944 |
| kTGH | 2013:5668 |
| kKangXi | 0546.251 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 2919 |
| kMandarin | bīn |
| kRSUnicode | 75.10 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 329.19 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 024.100:bīn 025.020:bīng |
| kTotalStrokes | 14 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "檳" U+6AB3 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0075.010:bīn 0076.030:bīng |