U+9EB4 "麴" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
麴
U+9EB4 "麴" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a logogram used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean that primarily refers to yeast or a leavening agent, specifically a fermented grain starter used in brewing and distilling, such as for making rice wine or liquor like sake and baijiu. The character combines the radical for “wheat” or “grain” on the left side with a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its fundamental role in fermentation processes in East Asian culinary and beverage traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9EB4 |
| 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 | 麴 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 麴 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xBA 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9EB4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009EB4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9eb4 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C454 |
| kCCCII | 21625D |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7960 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7960 |
| kCangjie | JNPFD |
| kCantonese | kuk1 |
| kCihaiT | 1552.208 |
| kCowles | 1874 |
| kDaeJaweon | 2043.060 |
| kDefinition | yeast, leaven; surname |
| kEACC | 21625D |
| kFanqie | 驅匊 |
| kFennIndex | 115.08 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4724.2 |
| kGB0 | 8480 |
| kGB1 | 8480 |
| kGSR | 1017i |
| kHangul | 국:0N |
| kHanYu | 74605.050 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 74605.050:qū |
| kHKGlyph | 4714 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 2043.060 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74605.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1513.520 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-7470 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C454 |
| kIRG_JSource | J13-7E6F |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D1BD |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4F55 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7960 |
| kJapanese | キク コク こうじ さけ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJIS0213 | 1,94,79 |
| kJapaneseKun | KOUJI |
| kJapaneseOn | KIKU |
| kJis1 | 7679 |
| kKangXi | 1513.520 |
| kKarlgren | 487 |
| kKorean | KWUK |
| kMandarin | qū |
| kMatthews | 1626 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1327b |
| kMojiJoho | MJ029848 |
| kMorohashi | 47818 |
| kPhonetic | 680 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+7682+199.11.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 199.8 |
| kSBGY | 455.28 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+9EAF<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "麹" U+9EB9 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 823.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | qū粵kuk1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 7800 |
| kTang | kiuk |
| kTotalStrokes | 19 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 257:316 |