U+85D8 "藘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

藘

U+85D8 "藘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) and Japanese kanji used primarily in classical or specialized contexts, representing a type of plant, specifically identified as the "arrowroot" or "kudzu" (Pueraria montana var. lobata), though it is considered a variant or less common form of the more standard character 葛 (gé in Chinese, kuzu in Japanese). Its structure combines the "grass" radical (艹) with the phonetic component 爈, and it appears in ancient texts such as the Shuowen Jiezi dictionary, where it is defined as a creeping vine used historically for its fibers and medicinal properties. In modern usage, this character is rare, found mostly in historical, botanical, or scholarly writings rather than everyday communication.

General Properties

Code Point	U+85D8
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	藘
HTML Hex Encoding	藘
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x97 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding	0x85D8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000085D8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u85d8

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	F2D1
kCCCII	232745
kCNS1986	2-665C
kCNS1992	2-665C
kCangjie	TYPP
kCantonese	leoi4
kCihaiT	1174.602
kDaeJaweon	1530.100
kDefinition	madder
kEACC	232745
kFanqie	力居
kFourCornerCode	4423.6
kGB3	7421
kGSR	0069u
kHanYu	53318.210
kHanyuPinyin	53318.210:lǘ
kIRGDaeJaweon	1530.100
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53318.210
kIRGKangXi	1065.170
kIRG_GSource	G3-6A35
kIRG_HSource	HB2-F2D1
kIRG_JSource	J14-7727
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-7035
kIRG_KSource	K2-5A49
kIRG_TSource	T2-665C
kJapanese	リョロ
kJIS0213	2,87,07
kJapaneseOn	RYO RO
kJis1	5785
kKangXi	1065.170
kMandarin	lǘ
kMatthews	4294
kMeyerWempe	1675h
kMojiJoho	MJ023058 MJ023058:E0101 MJ023059:E0102
kMorohashi	32313:E0102
kPhonetic	843
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+18559+140.3.15
kRSUnicode	140.15
kSBGY	070.07
kSimplifiedVariant	"𰱮" U+30C6E CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTaiwanTelegraph	9121
kTotalStrokes	18
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	317:043