U+85C9 "藉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
藉
U+85C9 "藉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily means "to rely on" or "to make use of" as a pretext, and it also carries the meaning of "mat" or "cushion" when used as a noun. In classical and modern Chinese texts, this character appears in common compounds such as "藉口" meaning "excuse" and "慰藉" meaning "consolation." It is distinct from the simplified form "借" which has largely replaced it in everyday usage for the sense of borrowing, though "藉" retains its specific nuances in formal, literary, or religious contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+85C9 |
| 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 | 藉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 藉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x97 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x85C9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000085C9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u85c9 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C2C7 |
| kCCCII | 21562E |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7733 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7733 |
| kCangjie | TQDA |
| kCantonese | zik6 |
| kCihaiT | 1172.601 |
| kCowles | 4544 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1528.260 |
| kDefinition | mat, pad; rely on; pretext |
| kEACC | 21562E |
| kFanqie | 慈夜 秦昔 |
| kFenn | 799C |
| kFennIndex | 33.09 56.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4496.1 |
| kGB0 | 2969 |
| kGB1 | 2969 |
| kGradeLevel | 5 |
| kGSR | 0798b' |
| kHangul | 자:0N |
| kHanYu | 53309.120 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53309.120:jiè |
| kHKGlyph | 3552 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1528.260 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53309.120 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1063.420 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3D65 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C2C7 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6934 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E6BF |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6D3E |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7733 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-655F |
| kJapanese | シャ ジャク セキ ジャ かりる ふむ しく |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:3390 |
| kJapaneseKun | SHIKU KARI FUMU |
| kJapaneseOn | SHA SEKI JAKU |
| kJis0 | 7320 |
| kKangXi | 1063.420 |
| kKorean | CA CEK |
| kLau | 1463 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 5659 |
| kMandarin | jí |
| kMatthews | 767 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3344 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023031 MJ023031:E0101 MJ023032:E0102 MJ023033:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 32242:E0102 |
| kNelson | 4081 |
| kPhonetic | 172 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6459+140.3.14 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.14 |
| kSBGY | 422.51 519.09 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+8024<kMatthews |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "借" U+501F CJK Unified Ideograph-# "藉" U+85C9 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 603.04 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | jiè粵zik6,ze3 jí粵zik6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5659 |
| kTang | dzhià |
| kTGHZ2013 | 156.160:jí 175.090:jiè |
| kTotalStrokes | 17 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "藉" U+85C9 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | chạ |
| kXerox | 275:353 |
| kXHC1983 | 0526.040:jí 0582.060,0584.011:jiè |