U+85EF "藯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+85EF "藯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character classified under the Radical 140 (艸, grass) with 16 additional strokes, though it does not have a well-documented or standardized meaning in modern Chinese dictionaries and is considered a variant or archaic form. In historical contexts, it may appear in classical texts or specialized scripts, but it lacks common usage in contemporary language or digital communication, serving primarily as a placeholder for obscure or unverified semantic content within the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified character set. Its structure combines the grass radical with a phonetic component, yet its exact pronunciation and definition remain ambiguous, contributing to its status as a ghost character or a rare glyph in the Unicode standard.

General Properties

Code Point U+85EF
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 藯
HTML Hex Encoding 藯
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0x97 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding 0x85EF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000085EF
C/C++/Java Escape \u85ef

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 F2D8
kCCCII 232737
kCNS1986 2-6663
kCNS1992 2-6663
kCangjie TSIP
kCantonese wai3
kFourCornerCode 4433.4
kGB5 7458
kHanYu 53323.060
kHanyuPinyin 53323.060:wèi
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 53323.060
kIRGKangXi 1066.140
kIRG_GSource G5-6A5A
kIRG_HSource HB2-F2D8
kIRG_JSource JMJ-023107
kIRG_KSource K2-5A56
kIRG_TSource T2-6663
kJapanese
kKangXi 1066.140
kMandarin wèi
kMojiJoho MJ023107
kMorohashi 32354
kRSUnicode 140.15
kTotalStrokes 18
kUnihanCore2020 HMT