U+85AD "薭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+85AD "薭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare or obsolete Chinese character, known as a variant of the character "稗" (bài) which refers to a type of barnyard grass or a weedy grass that resembles rice. This ideograph is composed of the radical for grass or plants (艹) combined with a phonetic component, and historically it was used to denote a weed that grows among cultivated rice, sometimes metaphorically referring to something insignificant or of low value. While it appears in some classical Chinese texts and dictionary compilations, it is not commonly used in modern standard Chinese and is not present in most contemporary font sets, making it a specialized glyph with limited practical application.

General Properties

Code Point U+85AD
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 薭
HTML Hex Encoding 薭
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x96 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding 0x85AD
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000085AD
C/C++/Java Escape \u85ad

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

kCangjie XTHDJ
kCantonese baai6
kHanYu 53302.111
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 53302.111
kIRGKangXi 1062.441
kIRG_GSource GE-4A4D
kIRG_JSource J13-7B3B
kJapanese ひ ひえ
kJIS0213 1,91,27
kJapaneseKun HIE
kJapaneseOn HAI
kJis1 5784
kKangXi 1062.441
kMandarin bài
kMojiJoho MJ022977 MJ022977:E0101 MJ022978:E0102
kMorohashi H534:E0102
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+15076+140.3.13
kRSUnicode 140.14
kTotalStrokes 16