U+85AB "薫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
薫
U+85AB "薫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a kanji meaning fragrant, aroma, or incense, and is widely used in East Asian languages, particularly in Japanese, where it carries a strong cultural association with the scent of burning incense or herbs. It appears in compounds like “薫風” (kunpuu, “fragrant breeze”) and is also a component in personal names. In the Unicode standard, this character is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block and is encoded for digital text representation across multiple scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+85AB |
| 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 | 薫 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 薫 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x96 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x85AB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000085AB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u85ab |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCNS1986 | E-562C |
| kCNS1992 | 3-562C |
| kCangjie | XTHGF |
| kCantonese | fan1 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1527.040 |
| kDefinition | a medicinal herb; to cauterize |
| kFourCornerCode | 4433.1 |
| kHangul | 훈:N |
| kHanYu | 53302.121 |
| kIICore | AJ |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1527.040 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53302.121 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1062.441 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-4A4B |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3730 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-6FE9 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-5A2D |
| kIRG_MSource | MD-85AB |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-562C |
| kJapanese | クン かおる かおり |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | KAORU KAORIGUSA KAORI |
| kJapaneseOn | KUN |
| kJis0 | 2316 |
| kKangXi | 1062.441 |
| kKorean | HWUN |
| kMandarin | xūn |
| kMojiJoho | MJ022971 MJ022971:E0101 MJ022973:E0102 MJ022972:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 32173 32173:E0101 |
| kNelson | 4073 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1798+140.3.13 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.13 |
| kTotalStrokes | 16 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | J |