U+9EB9 "麹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+9EB9 "麹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that represents a type of fermented grain, specifically a culture of mold or yeast used in East Asian cuisine to produce alcoholic beverages like rice wine and sake, as well as miso, soy sauce, and other fermented condiments. It is an alternative or variant form of the more common character "麴" and is composed of the radical for "wheat" or "grain" (麦 or 麥) combined with a phonetic component that suggests its pronunciation and association with fermentation processes. In modern usage, this character appears in names of traditional brewing applications and is recognized in the Unicode standard to support historical and technical texts related to food science and East Asian culinary traditions.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
麹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
麹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE9 0xBA 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x9EB9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00009EB9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u9eb9 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII |
27625D |
| kCangjie |
QEPFD |
| kCantonese |
kuk1 |
| kDefinition |
yeast, leaven; surname |
| kFourCornerCode |
4724.2 4740.2 |
| kHanYu |
74605.051 |
| kIICore |
AJ |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian |
74605.051 |
| kIRGKangXi |
1514.571 |
| kIRG_GSource |
GE-576C |
| kIRG_JSource |
J0-396D |
| kJapanese |
キク コク こうじ |
| kTGH |
2013:7748 |
| kJapaneseKun |
KOUJI |
| kJapaneseOn |
KIKU |
| kJis0 |
2577 |
| kKangXi |
1514.571 |
| kKorean |
KWUK |
| kMainlandTelegraph |
7800 |
| kMandarin |
qū |
| kMojiJoho |
MJ029852 |
| kMorohashi |
H792 |
| kNelson |
5388 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 |
C+2047+199.7.8 |
| kRSUnicode |
199'.8 |
| kTGHZ2013 |
307.210:qū |
| kTotalStrokes |
15 |
| kTraditionalVariant |
"麴" U+9EB4 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 |
GJ |
| kXHC1983 |
0943.030:qū |