U+85BA "薺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
薺
U+85BA "薺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character used across multiple East Asian languages, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. It primarily refers to the shepherd's purse plant (Capsella bursa-pastoris), a small edible herb known for its medicinal and culinary uses, and in classical contexts it can also denote a tangy or sour taste. In Japanese, it is read as "nazuna" and is one of the seven spring herbs celebrated in the traditional festival. The character is composed of the grass radical on top, indicating its botanical nature, and a phonetic component below that suggests its pronunciation and meaning.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+85BA |
| 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 | 薺 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 薺 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x96 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x85BA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000085BA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u85ba |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C2C9 |
| kCCCII | 232661 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7735 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7735 |
| kCangjie | TYX |
| kCantonese | cai5 |
| kCihaiT | 1174.305 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1527.340 |
| kDefinition | water-chestnuts; caltrop |
| kEACC | 232661 |
| kFanqie | 疾資 徂禮 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4422.3 |
| kGB1 | 6089 |
| kGSR | 0593l |
| kHangul | 제:0N |
| kHanYu | 53315.110 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53315.110:cí,jì,qì |
| kIICore | ATJKP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1527.340 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53315.110 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1063.080 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-5C79 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C2C9 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6935 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-EBF6 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7031 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7735 |
| kJapanese | セイ シ ザイ ジ なずな |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | NAZUNA |
| kJapaneseOn | SEI ZAI |
| kJis0 | 7321 |
| kKangXi | 1063.080 |
| kKorean | CEY |
| kMandarin | jì |
| kMatthews | 460 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3263b |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023006 MJ023006:E0101 MJ023007:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 32208:E0102 |
| kPhonetic | 56* |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6460+140.3.14 C+6460+210.14.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.14 |
| kSBGY | 053.29 268.06 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "荠" U+8360 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 603.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | jì粵cai5 qi粵cai4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5654 |
| kTang | dzhi |
| kTotalStrokes | 17 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 264:363 |
| kXHC1983 | 0532.021:jì 0895.011:qí |