U+9EAF "麯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
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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
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
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
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
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
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
74602.220
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
kSMSZD2003Index
822.09
kTaiwanTelegraph
7798
kTotalStrokes
17
kUnihanCore2020
H
kXerox
316:244
kXHC1983
0942.081:qū