U+8585 "薅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
薅
U+8585 "薅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as a verb meaning to weed, pull out, or remove plants or hair by the roots, often used in agricultural contexts. It is composed of the grass radical (艹) indicating its relation to plants, combined with a phonetic component, and is commonly seen in classical and modern Chinese texts describing farming tasks, such as weeding fields, or metaphorically for extracting unwanted elements. This character appears in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese writing systems and carries a vivid sense of manual, corrective labor.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8585 |
| 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 | 薅 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 薅 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x96 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8585 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008585 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8585 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | EE51 |
| kCCCII | 232656 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-5E7D |
| kCNS1992 | 2-5E7D |
| kCangjie | TVMI |
| kCantonese | hou1 |
| kCihaiT | 1171.404 |
| kCowles | 1097 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1524.030 |
| kDefinition | to weed; to eradicate |
| kEACC | 232656 |
| kFanqie | 呼毛 |
| kFenn | 356F |
| kFennIndex | 150.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4444.3 |
| kGB0 | 6222 |
| kGB1 | 6222 |
| kGSR | 1244d |
| kHanYu | 53309.060 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53309.060:hāo |
| kIICore | CG |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1524.030 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53309.060 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1060.140 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5E36 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-EE51 |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-5959 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-6FE7 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-5979 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-5E7D |
| kJapanese | コウ くさぎる |
| kTGH | 2013:6055 |
| kJapaneseKun | KUKIOTORU |
| kJapaneseOn | KOU |
| kJis1 | 5757 |
| kKangXi | 1060.140 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5632 |
| kMandarin | hāo |
| kMatthews | 2085 |
| kMeyerWempe | 739 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ022891 MJ022891:E0101 MJ022890:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 32085:E0102 |
| kPhonetic | 1650A |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+19751+140.3.13 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.13 |
| kSBGY | 156.04 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+8320<kMatthews |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 600.12 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | hāo粵hou1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5632 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 132.030:hāo |
| kTotalStrokes | 16 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kXerox | 306:156 |
| kXHC1983 | 0443.080:hāo |