U+91A4 "醤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+91A4 "醤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in both Traditional and Simplified Chinese, as well as in Japanese and Korean (Hanja) writing systems, where it primarily denotes a fermented bean paste or sauce, such as soybean paste or miso. It is a variant form of the more common character "醬" (jiàng in Mandarin) and is composed of the radical 酉 (yǒu), which relates to fermentation or liquor, combined with a phonetic component. In Japanese, it is frequently seen in the word "醤油" (shōyu, meaning soy sauce), though the standard character for that term is typically "醬油" in traditional contexts. The character reflects the cultural significance of fermented condiments in East Asian cuisines and is encoded in the Unicode standard to support digital text across languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+91A4
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 醤
HTML Hex Encoding 醤
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0x86 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding 0x91A4
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000091A4
C/C++/Java Escape \u91a4

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 LIMCW
kCantonese zoeng3
kDefinition any jam-like or paste-like food
kFourCornerCode 2760.1
kHanYu 63593.161
kIICore AJ
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 63593.161
kIRGKangXi 1286.241
kIRG_GSource GE-5024
kIRG_JSource J0-3E5F
kJapanese ショウ ひしお
kJapaneseKun HISHIO
kJapaneseOn SHOU
kJis0 3063
kKangXi 1286.241
kKorean CANG
kMandarin jiàng
kMojiJoho MJ026535 MJ026535:E0101 MJ026536:E0102
kMorohashi H627 H627:E0101
kNelson 4801
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+2503+164.7.10
kRSUnicode 164.10
kTotalStrokes 17
kUnihanCore2020 J