U+85A5 "薥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
薥
U+85A5 "薥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that typically represents a type of plant or vegetation, though its exact meaning and modern usage are quite obscure and rare. This character belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block, encoding a traditional glyph used in classical literature or specialized botanical references, likely denoting a kind of vine or herb. Due to its infrequent appearance in standard modern texts, it is not commonly found in everyday digital communication, but it serves as a historical linguistic artifact within the vast repertoire of East Asian written characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+85A5 |
| 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 | 薥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 薥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x96 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x85A5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000085A5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u85a5 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 253461 |
| kCangjie | XXTWL |
| kCantonese | suk6 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1526.080 |
| kGB5 | 7420 |
| kHangul | 촉:1N |
| kHanYu | 53302.020 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53302.020:shǔ,zhú |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1526.080 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53302.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1062.010 |
| kIRG_GSource | G5-6A34 |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-5965 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-6FDD |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-702A |
| kIRG_TSource | T4-5840 |
| kJapanese | ショク ゾク チョク チク |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | RENGETSUTSUJI |
| kJapaneseOn | SHOKU ZOKU CHOKU CHIKU |
| kJis1 | 5769 |
| kKangXi | 1062.010 |
| kKorean | CHOK |
| kMandarin | shǔ |
| kMojiJoho | MJ022957 MJ022957:E0101 MJ022958:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 32142:E0102 |
| kPhonetic | 1264* |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+22379+140.3.13 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.13 |
| kTotalStrokes | 16 |