U+8535 "蔵" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8535 "蔵" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character traditionally meaning "storehouse," "to store," or "to hide," and it is a variant of the more common character "藏" (cáng/zàng). In modern Japanese, it is used as a standard character (kokuji) in the jōyō kanji list, where it appears in words such as "金庫" (safe) or "貯蔵" (storage), and it also functions as a surname or component in compound terms. Its structure combines the radical for grass (艹) with elements suggesting concealment or preservation, reflecting its core semantic field of safeguarding or keeping something out of sight. Represented in Unicode since version 1.1, it belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block and is encoded with the UTF-8 bytes E8 8F 85.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8535
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	蔵
HTML Hex Encoding	蔵
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x94 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8535
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008535
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8535

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

kCNS1986	E-4E52
kCNS1992	3-4E52
kCangjie	XTIHS
kCantonese	cong4
kDefinition	hide, conceal; hoard, store up
kEACC	4B562B
kFourCornerCode	4425.3
kGB5	7360
kHanYu	53277.040
kHanyuPinyin	53277.040:zāng,cáng
kIICore	AJ
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53277.040
kIRGKangXi	1056.121
kIRG_GSource	G5-695C
kIRG_JSource	J0-4222
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-6F45
kIRG_KSource	K2-5959
kIRG_TSource	T3-4E52
kJapanese	ゾウ ソウ くら おさめる かくれる
kJoyoKanji	2010
kJapaneseKun	KURA KAKURERU OSAMERU
kJapaneseOn	ZOU
kJis0	3402
kKangXi	1056.121
kKorean	CANG
kMandarin	zāng
kMojiJoho	MJ022740
kMorohashi	31885'
kNelson	4042
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+2818+140.3.12
kRSUnicode	140.11
kTotalStrokes	14
kUnihanCore2020	J