U+685C "桜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Script Han
Script Extensions Han
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break OLetter
Ideographic Yes
Unified Ideograph Yes

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