U+685E "桞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
桞
U+685E "桞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that is primarily a variant form of the more common character 柳 (liǔ), which means "willow tree." In traditional and simplified Chinese writing, 桞 appears less frequently and is often considered an alternative or nonstandard orthographic variation, retaining the same pronunciation and core meaning of willow. Its composition includes the wood radical (木) on the left, indicating its association with trees, and a modified right component derived from the ancient seal script form. This character may appear in historical texts, calligraphy, or certain regional usages, but it is not widely used in modern standard Chinese.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+685E |
| 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 | 桞 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 桞 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE6 0xA1 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x685E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000685E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u685e |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 223C56 |
| kCNS1986 | E-652C |
| kCNS1992 | 3-652C |
| kCangjie | DNIL |
| kCantonese | lau5 |
| kEACC | 223C56 |
| kHanYu | 21187.041 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 21187.041 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0526.211 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-3C7A |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-652C |
| kKangXi | 0526.211 |
| kMandarin | liǔ |
| kRSUnicode | 75.6 |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |