U+85CD "藍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
藍
U+85CD "藍" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that also appears in Japanese kanji and Korean hanja, most commonly meaning "indigo" or "blue." It originally referred to the indigo plant used for dyeing, and by extension came to represent the deep blue color derived from it. In modern usage, it appears in words like the Japanese "aoi" (blue) in certain contexts and in Chinese terms for blue hues or indigo dye. This character is composed of the radical for grass (艹) atop the phonetic component 監, reflecting its botanical and color associations. As part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, it is widely used across East Asian writing systems for both literal and symbolic references to the color blue or the plant source.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+85CD |
| 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 | 藍 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 藍 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x97 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x85CD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000085CD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u85cd |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C2C5 |
| kCCCII | 215629 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7731 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7731 |
| kCangjie | TSIT |
| kCantonese | laam4 |
| kCihaiT | 1172.602 |
| kCowles | 2167 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1528.350 |
| kDefinition | blue; indigo plant; surname |
| kEACC | 4B5629 |
| kFanqie | 魯甘 |
| kFenn | 608A |
| kFennIndex | 286.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4410.7 |
| kGB1 | 3222 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kGSR | 0609k |
| kHangul | 남:0 람:0N |
| kHanYu | 53311.080 |
| kHanyuPinlu | lán(126) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53311.080:lán |
| kHKGlyph | 3551 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1528.350 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53311.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1064.160 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-4036 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C2C5 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4D75 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D7CA |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5540 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7731 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6560 |
| kJapanese | ラン あい |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | AI |
| kJapaneseOn | RAN |
| kJis0 | 4585 |
| kKangXi | 1064.160 |
| kKarlgren | 376 |
| kKorean | LAM |
| kLau | 1769 |
| kMandarin | lán |
| kMatthews | 3802 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1438 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023040 MJ023040:E0101 MJ023041:E0102 MJ023039:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 32258:E0103 |
| kNelson | 4082 |
| kPhonetic | 544 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3935+140.3.15 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.14 |
| kSBGY | 224.17 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "蓝" U+84DD CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 603.07 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | lán粵laam4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5663 |
| kTang | lɑm |
| kTotalStrokes | 17 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | lam |
| kXerox | 254:077 |
| kXHC1983 | 0669.091:la 0672.121:lán |