U+85B5 "薵" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

薵

U+85B5 "薵" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character that falls under the radical for grass or plant, often associated with meanings related to a type of vegetable or a term for artemisia, though its usage is largely historical or obscure in modern standard Chinese. It is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block, which encodes common logographic characters from these languages, and its structure combines a top "艹" grass radical with a bottom phonetic component "壽" (shòu, meaning longevity), giving it a classification as a phono-semantic compound. This character does not appear frequently in contemporary texts, but it may be encountered in classical literature or specialized dictionaries, serving as an example of the complexity and depth found within the vast inventory of CJK characters.

General Properties

Code Point	U+85B5
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	薵
HTML Hex Encoding	薵
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x96 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x85B5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000085B5
C/C++/Java Escape	\u85b5

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

kBigFive	F0AA
kCCCII	232669
kCNS1986	2-6274
kCNS1992	2-6274
kCangjie	TGNI
kCantonese	cau4
kCihaiT	1174.303
kDaeJaweon	1527.280
kDefinition	(simplified form of 薵) name of a variety of grass, (same as 葤) use grass to wrap things, to cover; to put a cover over something
kFanqie	直由
kFourCornerCode	4464.1
kGB3	7290
kHanYu	53310.080
kHanyuPinyin	53310.080:chóu,zhòu,dào
kIRGDaeJaweon	1527.280
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53310.080
kIRGKangXi	1062.510
kIRG_GSource	G3-687A
kIRG_HSource	HB2-F0AA
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-022996
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-701D
kIRG_KSource	K2-5A34
kIRG_TSource	T2-6274
kJapanese	チュウジュ
kKangXi	1062.510
kMandarin	chóu
kMojiJoho	MJ022996 MJ022996:E0100 MJ022997:E0101
kMorohashi	32197:E0101
kPhonetic	1149*
kRSUnicode	140.14
kSBGY	209.47
kSimplifiedVariant	"䓓" U+44D3 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes	17
kUnihanCore2020	HMT