U+9E98 "麘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9E98 "麘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and historically specific Chinese character that refers to a type of fragrant herb or the scent of musk, often associated with traditional Chinese medicine and perfumery. Its components include the "deer" radical (鹿) combined with phonetic and semantic elements, reflecting its connection to animal-derived or plant-based aromatics. This character is classified under the CJK Unified Ideographs block and is seldom used in modern Mandarin, appearing mostly in classical texts or specialized lexicons related to natural fragrances and ancient terminology.

General Properties

Code Point U+9E98
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 麘
HTML Hex Encoding 麘
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xBA 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9E98
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009E98
C/C++/Java Escape \u9e98

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

kCCCII 235D63
kCNS1986 E-5E21
kCNS1992 3-5E21
kCangjie IPHDA
kCantonese hoeng1
kDaeJaweon 2039.070
kDefinition scent
kHangul 향:N
kHanYu 74734.130
kIRGDaeJaweon 2039.070
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74734.130
kIRGKangXi 1511.020
kIRG_GSource GE-575E
kIRG_HSource H-9F6D
kIRG_JSource J1-6C65
kIRG_KPSource KP1-9033
kIRG_KSource K2-737B
kIRG_TSource T3-5E21
kJapanese キョウ コウ
kKoreanName 2015
kJapaneseOn KYOU KOU
kJis1 7669
kKangXi 1511.020
kMandarin xiāng
kMojiJoho MJ029808
kMorohashi 47668
kPhonetic 462*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+23023+186.9.11 C+23023+198.11.9
kRSUnicode 198.9
kTotalStrokes 20
kUnihanCore2020 H