U+915B "酛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+915B "酛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that is also used in Japanese, primarily associated with the production of sake (Japanese rice wine). It represents the concept of "motomi" or "shubo", which is a yeast starter mash cultivated from steamed rice, water, and koji mold, essential for initiating fermentation in sake brewing. The character is composed of the radical for "alcohol" or "fermented beverage" (酉) on the left, and the element "元" (meaning origin or source) on the right, reflecting its role as the foundational ingredient in sake making. This ideograph is encoded in the CJK Unified Ideographs block and is notably used in Japanese industrial and brewing contexts to denote a specific stage in the sake production process.

General Properties

Code Point	U+915B
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	酛
HTML Hex Encoding	酛
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0x85 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x915B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000915B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u915b

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Han
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes
Unified Ideograph	Yes

Unihan Properties

kCangjie	MWMMU
kCantonese	jyun4
kHanYu	63575.011
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63575.011
kIRGKangXi	1281.281
kIRG_GSource	GE-4F72
kIRG_JSource	J13-7C76
kJapanese	さけのもと
kJIS0213	1,92,86
kJapaneseKun	SAKENOMOTO
kJis1	6659
kKangXi	1281.281
kMandarin	yuán
kMojiJoho	MJ026458
kMorohashi	39809
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+15207+164.7.4
kRSUnicode	164.4
kTotalStrokes	11