U+859D "薝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
薝
U+859D "薝" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that belongs to the Kangxi radical 140 for grass or plants. It is pronounced "zhān" in Mandarin and primarily refers to the "gardenia" flower, specifically the Gardenia jasminoides, known for its fragrant white blossoms and often associated with traditional East Asian culture and medicinal uses. This character appears in classical texts and historical dictionaries, but it is now considered rare or literary in modern usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+859D |
| 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 | 薝 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 薝 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x96 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x859D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000859D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u859d |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | EE4C |
| kCCCII | 232653 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-5E78 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-5E78 |
| kCangjie | TNCR |
| kCantonese | zim1 |
| kCihaiT | 1171.409 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1525.210 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4426.1 |
| kGB3 | 7518 |
| kHangul | 담:1N |
| kHanYu | 53304.100 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53304.100:zhān |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1525.210 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53304.100 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1061.260 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-6B32 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-EE4C |
| kIRG_JSource | J14-767C |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-6FC2 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-5C7A |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-5E78 |
| kIRG_VSource | V3-374B |
| kJapanese | セン タン |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJIS0213 | 2,86,92 |
| kJapaneseOn | SEN TAN |
| kJis1 | 5765 |
| kKangXi | 1061.260 |
| kKorean | TAM |
| kMandarin | zhān |
| kMojiJoho | MJ022944 MJ022944:E0101 MJ022945:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 32127:E0102 |
| kPhonetic | 179* |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+18551+140.3.13 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.13 |
| kTotalStrokes | 16 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |