U+79D5 "秕" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
秕
U+79D5 "秕" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "empty grain" or "blighted grain," referring to grain kernels that are hollow, shriveled, or otherwise unproductive. It is composed of the radical for grain (禾) on the left and the phonetic component 比 on the right. In classical and modern usage, the character also conveys figurative meanings such as something worthless, flawed, or of poor quality, often appearing in compound words like 秕政 (a corrupt or bad government) or 秕糠 (chaff and husk, symbolizing something useless). This character belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block and is used across these languages, though less commonly in everyday contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+79D5 |
| 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 | 秕 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 秕 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE7 0xA7 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x79D5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000079D5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u79d5 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | CFF9 |
| kCCCII | 22682E |
| kCNS1986 | 2-2C5B |
| kCNS1992 | 2-2C5B |
| kCangjie | HDPP |
| kCantonese | bei2 |
| kCihaiT | 990.104 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1274.140 |
| kDefinition | empty grain or rice husk, chaff |
| kEACC | 22682E |
| kFanqie | 卑履 |
| kFennIndex | 399.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2191.0 |
| kGB0 | 7985 |
| kGB1 | 7985 |
| kGSR | 0566q |
| kHangul | 비:0N |
| kHanYu | 42593.080 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42593.080:bǐ |
| kIICore | AGKP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1274.140 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42593.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0850.280 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-6F75 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-CFF9 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-633E |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-DFE2 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5D79 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-2C5B |
| kJapanese | ヒ ビ しいな |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:4251 |
| kJapaneseKun | SHIINA |
| kJapaneseOn | HI |
| kJis0 | 6730 |
| kKangXi | 0850.280 |
| kKorean | PI |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 4431 |
| kMandarin | bǐ |
| kMatthews | 5084 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ019016 |
| kMorohashi | 24958 |
| kNelson | 3269 3466 |
| kPhonetic | 1030 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+5905+81.4.5 C+5905+115.5.4 |
| kRSUnicode | 115.4 |
| kSBGY | 248.08 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+7C83<kMatthews |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 484.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | bǐ粵bei2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 4431 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 018.020:bǐ |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 300:141 |
| kXHC1983 | 0057.030:bǐ |