U+9EA6 "麦" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9EA6 "麦" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "wheat" or "barley," and it serves as a simplified form of the traditional character "麥." In standard Mandarin Chinese, it is pronounced as "mài" and is commonly used in agricultural contexts, appearing in words such as "小麦" for wheat and "麦子" for grain. The character is composed of seven strokes and is classified under the radical "麥" or its simplified counterpart, reflecting its origins in representing cereal crops that have been central to Chinese cuisine and culture for millennia. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard enables consistent digital representation across platforms and languages for this fundamental ideograph.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9EA6
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	麦
HTML Hex Encoding	麦
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xBA 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9EA6
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009EA6
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9ea6

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	27625B
kCNS1986	E-2547
kCNS1992	3-2547
kCangjie	QMHE
kCantonese	mak6
kDaeJaweon	2041.020
kDefinition	wheat, barley, oats; simplified form of Kangxi radical 199
kEACC	27625B
kFourCornerCode	5024.7
kGB0	3483
kHanYu	74600.020
kHanyuPinlu	mài(146)
kIICore	AGJ
kIRGDaeJaweon	2041.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74600.020
kIRGKangXi	1512.090
kIRG_GSource	G0-4273
kIRG_HSource	H-A0FD
kIRG_JSource	J0-477E
kIRG_TSource	T3-2547
kJapanese	バク むぎ
kJoyoKanji	2010
kTGH	2013:601
kJapaneseKun	MUGI
kJapaneseOn	BAKU
kJis0	3994
kKangXi	1512.090
kKorean	MAYK
kMainlandTelegraph	7796
kMandarin	mài
kMojiJoho	MJ029826
kMorohashi	47718
kNelson	5385
kPhonetic	874
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+3380+199.7.0
kRSUnicode	199'.0
kSimplifiedVariant	"麦" U+9EA6 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTGHZ2013	241.140:mài
kTotalStrokes	7
kTraditionalVariant	"麥" U+9EA5 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "麦" U+9EA6 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	GHJ
kXHC1983	0759.040:mài