U+85D9 "藙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+85D9 "藙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character traditionally defined in classical lexicons such as the Shuowen Jiezi, where it refers to a type of plant, specifically identified as the fruit of the "dogwood" or "prickly ash" (Zanthoxylum), often associated with a bitter or medicinal flavor. In modern usage, this character is extremely rare and is primarily encountered in historical or botanical contexts, representing an archaic term for a plant used in traditional Chinese medicine or as a spice. Its structure combines the radical 艹 (grass or plant) with the phonetic component 義, indicating its classification as a phono-semantic compound within the CJK Unified Ideographs block.

General Properties

Code Point	U+85D9
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	藙
HTML Hex Encoding	藙
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0x97 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding	0x85D9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000085D9
C/C++/Java Escape	\u85d9

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	F2C9
kCCCII	232727
kCNS1986	2-6654
kCNS1992	2-6654
kCangjie	TYOE
kCantonese	ngai6
kCihaiT	1176.305
kDaeJaweon	1530.140
kDefinition	dogwood
kFanqie	魚旣
kFourCornerCode	4424.7
kGB3	7543
kGSR	0516d
kHanYu	53322.020
kHanyuPinyin	53322.020:yì
kIRGDaeJaweon	1530.140
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	53322.020
kIRGKangXi	1065.210
kIRG_GSource	G3-6B4B
kIRG_HSource	HB2-F2C9
kIRG_JSource	J4-7728
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-7053
kIRG_KSource	K2-5A4A
kIRG_TSource	T2-6654
kJapanese	ギ ゲ
kJIS0213	2,87,08
kKangXi	1065.210
kMandarin	yì
kMojiJoho	MJ023060 MJ023060:E0101 MJ023061:E0102
kMorohashi	32317:E0102
kPhonetic	960A
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+18560+140.3.15
kRSUnicode	140.15
kSBGY	361.12
kTaiwanTelegraph	9122
kTotalStrokes	18
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	313:302