U+85CA "藊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+85CA "藊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that represents a type of legume, specifically referring to the hyacinth bean or lablab bean (Lablab purpureus), which is also known as the "dou" character in ancient botanical contexts. This ideograph is composed of the radical for grass (艹) on top, indicating its plant-related meaning, combined with the component "扁" (biǎn, meaning flat), likely describing the bean's flat shape. It appears in classical Chinese texts and historical dictionaries, though it is rarely used in modern simplified Chinese, where characters like "扁豆" (biǎndòu) are more common for the same bean. As part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, it enables digital representation of traditional East Asian script and serves as a record of agricultural and linguistic heritage in written Chinese.

General Properties

Code Point	U+85CA
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	藊
HTML Hex Encoding	藊
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x97 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding	0x85CA
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000085CA
C/C++/Java Escape	\u85ca

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

kCCCII	232723
kCangjie	THDB
kCantonese	bin2
kCihaiT	1174.508
kDaeJaweon	1528.280
kDefinition	a kind of bean with flat pods
kFanqie	方典
kFenn	566F
kFennIndex	408.11
kGB5	7444
kHanYu	53313.120
kHanyuPinyin	53313.120:biǎn
kIRGDaeJaweon	1528.280
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53313.120
kIRGKangXi	1064.040
kIRG_GSource	G5-6A4C
kIRG_JSource	J14-7726
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-700E
kIRG_KSource	K2-5A44
kIRG_TSource	T4-5D28
kJapanese	ヘン ふじまめ
kJIS0213	2,87,06
kJapaneseKun	FUJIMAME
kJapaneseOn	HEN
kJis1	5781
kKangXi	1064.040
kMandarin	biǎn
kMatthews	5235
kMojiJoho	MJ023034 MJ023034:E0101 MJ023035:E0102
kMorohashi	32246:E0102
kPhonetic	1042A
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+18558+140.3.14
kRSUnicode	140.14
kSMSZD2003Index	603.05
kSMSZD2003Readings	biǎn粵bin2
kTotalStrokes	17
kXHC1983	0065.050:biǎn