U+85C8 "藈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+85C8 "藈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used primarily in classical or historical texts, where it refers to a type of water plant, specifically identified as the arrowhead or similar aquatic herb. In traditional Chinese culture, this ideograph appears in ancient dictionaries and botanical records, often associated with edible roots or medicinal uses. Its structure combines the radical for grass or plant, indicating its botanical nature, with a phonetic component that provides a clue to its pronunciation, which is typically read as “kuí” in Mandarin. While not commonly used in modern everyday writing, it remains a part of the extended CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) character set, preserved for scholarly and historical purposes.

General Properties

Code Point U+85C8
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 藈
HTML Hex Encoding 藈
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x97 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding 0x85C8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000085C8
C/C++/Java Escape \u85c8

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 F0B1
kCCCII 232678
kCNS1986 2-627B
kCNS1992 2-627B
kCangjie TBUK
kCantonese kwai1
kCihaiT 1174.507
kDaeJaweon 1528.230
kFanqie 苦圭
kFourCornerCode 4463.4
kHanYu 53312.080
kHanyuPinyin 53312.080:kuí
kIRGDaeJaweon 1528.230
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 53312.080
kIRGKangXi 1063.360
kIRG_GSource GE-4A52
kIRG_HSource HB2-F0B1
kIRG_JSource JMJ-023030
kIRG_KPSource KP1-6FFF
kIRG_KSource K2-5A43
kIRG_TSource T2-627B
kJapanese ケイ ケ
kKangXi 1063.360
kMandarin kuí
kMojiJoho MJ023030
kMorohashi 32236
kRSUnicode 140.14
kSBGY 092.20
kTotalStrokes 17
kUnihanCore2020 HMT