U+85AF "薯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
薯
U+85AF "薯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to yam, potato, or sweet potato, and it is commonly used in East Asian languages, particularly in Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. This ideograph is composed of the radical for grass or plant (艹) and the phonetic component 署, indicating its agricultural and edible root vegetable associations. In modern usage, it appears in words like "马铃薯" for potato, "甘薯" for sweet potato, and "薯条" for French fries, making it a practical character in culinary contexts. Its encoding in Unicode ensures consistent representation across digital platforms, supporting the accurate display and exchange of text in scripts that use CJK characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+85AF |
| 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 | 薯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 薯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x96 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x85AF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000085AF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u85af |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C1A6 |
| kCCCII | 21562C |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7530 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7530 |
| kCangjie | TWLA |
| kCantonese | syu4 |
| kCihaiT | 1174.201 |
| kCowles | 3991 3992 |
| kDefinition | yam, tuber, potato |
| kEACC | 21562C |
| kFanqie | 常恕 |
| kFenn | 192F |
| kFennIndex | 462.12 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4460.4 |
| kGB0 | 4277 |
| kGB1 | 4277 |
| kHangul | 서:0N |
| kHanYu | 53301.180 |
| kHanyuPinlu | shǔ(13) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53301.180:shǔ |
| kHKGlyph | 3547 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53301.180 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1062.450 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4A6D |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C1A6 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3D72 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E1F8 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6023 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7530 |
| kJapanese | ショ ジョ いも |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:3321 |
| kJapaneseKun | IMO |
| kJapaneseOn | SHO JO |
| kJis0 | 2982 |
| kKangXi | 1062.450 |
| kKorean | SE |
| kLau | 2912 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5620 |
| kMandarin | shǔ |
| kMatthews | 5869 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2768 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ022983 MJ022983:E0102 MJ022984:E0103 MJ022985:E0104 |
| kMorohashi | 32191:E0104 |
| kNelson | 4080 |
| kPhonetic | 268 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2428+140.3.13 V+7701+140.3.14 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.14 |
| kSBGY | 362.23 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+85F7<kLau,kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 602.06 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | shǔ粵syu4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5620 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 342.020:shǔ |
| kTotalStrokes | 16 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 254:354 |
| kXHC1983 | 1067.030:shǔ |