U+9EBC "麼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
麼
U+9EBC "麼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character used in written Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, primarily functioning as a suffix or interrogative particle. It is most commonly associated with the Chinese word "shénme" (什么 in simplified form) meaning "what," and appears in phrases like "zhème" (这么) meaning "so" or "such." In historical and literary contexts, it also conveys a sense of smallness, insignificance, or approximation, and its simplified counterpart is often rendered as "么" in mainland Chinese script, though it remains widely used in traditional texts and across different East Asian writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+9EBC |
| 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 | 麼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 麼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE9 0xBA 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x9EBC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00009EBC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u9ebc |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BBF2 |
| kCCCII | 216260 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6B7B |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6B7B |
| kCangjie | IDVI |
| kCantonese | mo1 |
| kCihaiT | 1553.201 |
| kCowles | 2736 |
| kDaeJaweon | 2045.050 |
| kDefinition | interrogative final particle; insignificant, small, tiny |
| kEACC | 216260 |
| kFanqie | 亡果 |
| kFourCornerCode | 0023.2 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kHanYu | 74724.030 |
| kHanyuPinlu | me(3394) |
| kHKGlyph | 4716 |
| kIICore | ATHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 2045.050 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 74724.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1515.050 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-576E |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BBF2 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5677 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-908F |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-742E |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6B7B |
| kJapanese | モ バ マ ビ ミ |
| kJapaneseKun | KOMAKAI KASUKA |
| kJapaneseOn | MA BA |
| kJis0 | 5487 |
| kKangXi | 1515.050 |
| kKorean | MA |
| kLau | 2183 |
| kMandarin | me |
| kMatthews | 4540 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ029856 MJ029856:E0101 MJ029857:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 47892 47892:E0101 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4740+52.3.11 C+4740+200.11.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 200.3 |
| kSBGY | 306.34 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+5E85<kMatthews U+9EBD<kHKGlyph,kLau |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "么" U+4E48 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 823.05 199.02 203.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | me粵mo1 mó粵mo1 |
| kTotalStrokes | 14 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJMT |
| kXerox | 241:122 |