U+85E5 "藥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
藥
U+85E5 "藥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character primarily meaning "medicine," "drug," or "remedy," and it is also used in Japanese and Korean scripts. This ideograph combines the "grass" radical (艹) on top, indicating its botanical or herbal origins, with the phonetic component 樂 (meaning "music" or "joy"), reflecting historical associations between healing and harmonious rituals. In modern usage, it appears in terms for pharmaceuticals, herbal concoctions, and metaphorical expressions like "medicine for the soul," and it is distinct from its simplified Chinese counterpart "药" (U+836F).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+85E5 |
| 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 | 藥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 藥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x97 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x85E5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000085E5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u85e5 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C3C4 |
| kCCCII | 215635 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-786F |
| kCNS1992 | 1-786F |
| kCangjie | TVID |
| kCantonese | joek6 |
| kCihaiT | 1175.501 |
| kCowles | 5183 |
| kDefinition | drugs, pharmaceuticals, medicine |
| kEACC | 215635 |
| kFanqie | 以灼 離灼 |
| kFenn | 490A |
| kFennIndex | 619.03 654.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4490.4 |
| kGB1 | 5009 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 1125p |
| kHangul | 약:0E |
| kHanYu | 53320.110 |
| kHanyuPinlu | yào(407) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53320.110:yào,shuò,lüè |
| kHKGlyph | 3561 |
| kIICore | ATHKMP |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53320.110 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1065.470 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-5229 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C3C4 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-693B |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F7EE |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6537 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-786F |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6565 |
| kJapanese | ヤク シャク リャク くすり |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010:U+85AC |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | KUSURI |
| kJapaneseOn | YAKU |
| kJis0 | 7327 |
| kKangXi | 1065.470 |
| kKarlgren | 568 |
| kKorean | YAK |
| kLau | 3388 |
| kMandarin | yào |
| kMatthews | 7501 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3875 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023086 MJ023086:E0101 MJ023087:E0102 MJ023088:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 32341:E0102 |
| kNelson | 4085 |
| kPhonetic | 972 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6466+140.3.15 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.15 |
| kSBGY | 501.01 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+846F<kLau,kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "药" U+836F CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 604.06 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | yào粵joek6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5673 |
| kTang | *iɑk |
| kTotalStrokes | 18 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | dược |
| kXerox | 245:300 |
| kXHC1983 | 1342.160,1343.011:yào |