U+9EB5 "麵" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
麵
U+9EB5 "麵" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily means "wheat flour" or "noodles," representing food made from wheat dough. It is composed of the radical 麥 (wheat) on the left, indicating its association with wheat or grain, and the phonetic component 面 on the right, which also carries the meaning of "face" or "surface." This character is frequently used in East Asian cuisine, especially in terms like "ramen" or "wheat noodles," and it plays a key role in culinary vocabulary across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9EB5 |
| 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 | 麵 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 麵 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xBA 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9EB5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009EB5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9eb5 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C4D1 |
| kCCCII | 21625E |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7A5C |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7A5C |
| kCangjie | JNMWL |
| kCantonese | min6 |
| kCowles | 2688 |
| kDaeJaweon | 2043.150 |
| kDefinition | flour, dough, noodles |
| kEACC | 21625E |
| kFanqie | 莫甸 |
| kFenn | 766C |
| kFennIndex | 342.07 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4122.7 4124.6 |
| kGB1 | 8857 |
| kHangul | 면:0N |
| kHanYu | 74605.120 |
| kIICore | ATHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 2043.150 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74605.120 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1514.070 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-7859 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C4D1 |
| kIRG_JSource | J13-7E70 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-DAEC |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-587D |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7A5C |
| kIRG_VSource | V4-5673 |
| kJapanese | メン ベン むぎこ めん |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJIS0213 | 1,94,80 |
| kJapaneseKun | MUGIKO |
| kJapaneseOn | BEN MEN |
| kJis1 | 7680 |
| kKangXi | 1514.070 |
| kKorean | MYEN |
| kLau | 2142 |
| kMandarin | miàn |
| kMatthews | 4503 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1829 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ029849 |
| kMorohashi | 47827 |
| kNelson | 5389 |
| kPhonetic | 900 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+7797+176.9.11 C+7797+199.11.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 199.9 |
| kSBGY | 408.35 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+9EAA<kMeyerWempe U+9EAB<kMatthews |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "面" U+9762 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 823.03 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 9622 |
| kTotalStrokes | 20 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 250:133 |
| kXHC1983 | 0786.062:miàn |