U+9EB4 "麴" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
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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
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
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
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
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
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
74605.050
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
kSMSZD2003Index
823.02
kSMSZD2003Readings
qū粵kuk1
kTaiwanTelegraph
7800
kTang
kiuk
kTotalStrokes
19
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kXerox
257:316