U+85AC "薬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+85AC "薬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) also used in Japanese kanji, primarily meaning "medicine" or "drug." Its radical is 艹 (grass) indicating a botanical origin, and it traditionally derives from a plant-based remedy, though in modern usage it encompasses both pharmaceutical drugs and medical treatment. This character is a fundamental term in East Asian languages, appearing in compounds like 薬品 (yakuhin, meaning "medicine" or "chemicals") and 薬局 (yakkyoku, meaning "pharmacy").

General Properties

Code Point	U+85AC
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	薬
HTML Hex Encoding	薬
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x96 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding	0x85AC
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000085AC
C/C++/Java Escape	\u85ac

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

kCCCII	335635
kCNS1986	E-5630
kCNS1992	3-5630
kCangjie	TIOD
kDefinition	drugs, pharmaceuticals, medicine
kEACC	335635
kFourCornerCode	4490.4
kHanYu	53303.051
kIICore	AJ
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53303.051
kIRGKangXi	1062.441
kIRG_GSource	GE-4A4C
kIRG_JSource	J0-4C74
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-6FF0
kIRG_KSource	K2-5A2E
kIRG_TSource	T3-5630
kJapanese	ヤク シャク リャク くすり
kJoyoKanji	2010
kJapaneseKun	KUSURI
kJapaneseOn	YAKU
kJis0	4484
kKangXi	1062.441
kKorean	YAK
kMandarin	yào
kMojiJoho	MJ022975
kMorohashi	32188'
kNelson	4074
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+3840+140.3.13
kRSUnicode	140.13
kTotalStrokes	16
kUnihanCore2020	J