U+9EAF "麯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
麯
U+9EAF "麯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a classic Chinese character primarily associated with traditional brewing and fermentation. It denotes a type of yeast or starter culture, specifically the moldy grain or "koji" used in the production of alcoholic beverages like rice wine and spirits such as baijiu. This character is composed of the radical for wheat or grain, reflecting its agricultural and culinary roots, and is a less common variant or traditional form of the character more frequently written as "曲" in modern simplified Chinese. In historical and specialized contexts, "麯" represents an essential biological agent in East Asian fermentation processes, bridging ancient food science with cultural heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9EAF |
| 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 | 麯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 麯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xBA 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9EAF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009EAF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9eaf |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 235D79 |
| kCNS1986 | E-5750 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-5750 |
| kCangjie | JNTW |
| kCantonese | kuk1 |
| kCihaiT | 1552.204 |
| kDaeJaweon | 2042.170 |
| kDefinition | yeast, leaven |
| kEACC | 235D79 |
| kFanqie | 驅匊 |
| kFenn | 819I |
| kFennIndex | 115.08 |
| kGB1 | 8869 |
| kHangul | 국:1N |
| kHanYu | 74602.220 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74602.220:qū |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 2042.170 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74602.220 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1513.190 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-7865 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-91B0 |
| kIRG_JSource | J13-7E6E |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-9060 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-5A77 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-5750 |
| kJapanese | キク こうじ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJIS0213 | 1,94,78 |
| kJapaneseKun | KOUJI |
| kJapaneseOn | KIKU |
| kJis1 | 7676 |
| kKangXi | 1513.190 |
| kKarlgren | 492 |
| kKorean | KWUK |
| kMandarin | qū |
| kMatthews | 1626 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1327b |
| kMojiJoho | MJ029841 |
| kMorohashi | 47771 |
| kPhonetic | 683 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+17231+199.11.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 199.6 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+9EB4<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "曲" U+66F2 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "𱋐" U+312D0 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 822.09 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 7798 |
| kTotalStrokes | 17 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | H |
| kXerox | 316:244 |
| kXHC1983 | 0942.081:qū |