U+6AB3 "檳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
檳
U+6AB3 "檳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the areca palm or its fruit, commonly known as the betel nut, and it is used primarily in East Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. This character is composed of the wood radical on the left side, indicating a tree or plant, and a phonetic component on the right that gives a clue to its pronunciation. In modern usage, it appears in terms like "檳榔" (bīngláng), referring to the areca nut chewed as a mild stimulant in many Asian cultures, and it carries cultural significance in regions where betel nut consumption is traditional.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+6AB3 |
| 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 | 檳 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 檳 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xAA 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x6AB3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00006AB3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u6ab3 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C262 |
| kCCCII | 214564 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-764E |
| kCNS1992 | 1-764E |
| kCangjie | DJMC |
| kCantonese | ban1 |
| kCihaiT | 725.404 |
| kCowles | 3219 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0948.080 |
| kDefinition | betel-nut, areca nut |
| kEACC | 214564 |
| kFanqie | 必鄰 |
| kFenn | 860H |
| kFennIndex | 412.02 414.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4398.6 |
| kGB1 | 7336 |
| kHangul | 빈:0N |
| kHanYu | 21310.090 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 21310.090:bīng |
| kHKGlyph | 2021 |
| kIICore | ATHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0948.080 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21310.090 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0558.360 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-6944 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C262 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5D27 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-DFF8 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5E31 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-764E |
| kJapanese | ビン ヒン |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | BINROUSHI |
| kJapaneseOn | BIN HIN |
| kJis0 | 6107 |
| kKangXi | 0558.360 |
| kKorean | PIN |
| kMandarin | bīn |
| kMatthews | 5263 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2272 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ014618 MJ014618:E0101 MJ014620:E0102 MJ014619:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 15734 15734:E0101 |
| kNelson | 2390 |
| kPhonetic | 1018* |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+5318+75.4.14 |
| kRSUnicode | 75.14 |
| kSBGY | 103.19 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+3BFD<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe U+68B9<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "槟" U+69DF CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 336.13 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | bīn粵ban1 bīng粵ban1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 2919 |
| kTotalStrokes | 18 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 263:371 |
| kXHC1983 | 0075.011:bīn 0076.031:bīng |