U+685C "桜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
桜
U+685C "桜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "cherry blossom" or "cherry tree" and is commonly used in East Asian writing systems, particularly in Japanese and Chinese. In Japanese, it is the simplified shinjitai form of the traditional character "櫻" and is closely associated with the culturally iconic cherry blossom, symbolizing beauty, impermanence, and the arrival of spring. While it appears in Chinese as a variant form, its use is less common, often appearing in historical or artistic contexts. In Unicode, it belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block, representing a shared heritage of logographic characters across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+685C |
| 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 | 桜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 桜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xA1 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x685C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000685C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u685c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCangjie | DFV |
| kCantonese | jing1 |
| kDefinition | cherry, cherry blossom |
| kEACC | 4B456F |
| kFourCornerCode | 4294.4 4994.4 |
| kHanYu | 21207.051 |
| kIICore | AJ |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21207.051 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0526.211 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-3C78 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3A79 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-3A6C |
| kJapanese | オウ ヨウ さくら |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kJapaneseKun | SAKURA |
| kJapaneseOn | OU YOU |
| kJis0 | 2689 |
| kKangXi | 0526.211 |
| kKorean | AYNG |
| kMandarin | yīng |
| kMojiJoho | MJ013917 |
| kMorohashi | 14796' |
| kNelson | 2256 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2153+75.4.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 75.6 |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | J |