U+85B9 "薹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
薹
U+85B9 "薹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to the flowering stalk or stem of certain plants, especially the bolting stem of vegetables like garlic chives or rapeseed that shoots up before blooming. In botanical and culinary contexts, it is often used to describe the tender, edible part of these plants, such as in "蒜薹" (garlic scapes) or "菜薹" (flowering cabbage stems). Its radical is the grass radical (艹), indicating its association with plants, and it is pronounced as "tái" in Mandarin, with a structure that conveys the idea of a raised or elevated stalk emerging from the earth.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+85B9 |
| 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 | 薹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 薹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x96 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x85B9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000085B9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u85b9 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C2CA |
| kCCCII | 23266C |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7736 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7736 |
| kCangjie | TGRG |
| kCantonese | toi4 |
| kCihaiT | 1174.401 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1527.330 |
| kDefinition | Cyperus rotundus, nut grass |
| kEACC | 23266C |
| kFanqie | 徒哀 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4410.4 |
| kGB0 | 6223 |
| kGB1 | 6223 |
| kHanYu | 53310.040 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53310.040:tái |
| kIICore | AGT |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1527.330 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53310.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1063.040 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5E37 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C2CA |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6937 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-7004 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-5A38 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7736 |
| kJapanese | ダイ タイ あぶらな とう |
| kTGH | 2013:6205 |
| kJapaneseKun | ABURANA TOU |
| kJapaneseOn | TAI DAI |
| kJis0 | 7323 |
| kKangXi | 1063.040 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5653 |
| kMandarin | tái |
| kMatthews | 6019 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3199b |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023004 MJ023004:E0101 MJ023005:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 32204:E0102 |
| kNelson | 4079 |
| kPhonetic | 1374 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6462+140.3.14 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.14 |
| kSBGY | 099.17 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 603.01 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | tái粵toi4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5653 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 357.040:tái |
| kTotalStrokes | 17 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJMT |
| kXerox | 271:261 |
| kXHC1983 | 1108.050:tái |