U+85F7 "藷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
藷
U+85F7 "藷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (Hanzi) that in modern standard Mandarin is most commonly pronounced "shǔ" and refers specifically to the yam or sweet potato plant, particularly in compound terms like "甘藷" (gānshǔ) for sweet potato. Historically, it was the name for the Chinese yam (Dioscorea opposita) before the introduction of sweet potatoes from the Americas, and in traditional texts it can also denote a type of edible tuber or a plant in the genus Dioscorea. In Japanese, it is used in the compound "藷" (imo) as an alternate character for taro or various starchy roots, though it is primarily seen in specialized botanical or historical contexts rather than in everyday writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+85F7 |
| 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 | 藷 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 藷 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0x97 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x85F7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000085F7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u85f7 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C3C5 |
| kCCCII | 232728 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7870 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7870 |
| kCangjie | TYRA |
| kCantonese | syu4 |
| kCihaiT | 1179.301 |
| kCowles | 3991 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1533.020 |
| kDefinition | yam, tuber, potato |
| kEACC | 232728 |
| kFanqie | 章魚 常恕 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4466.4 |
| kHangul | 저:0N |
| kHanYu | 53321.090 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 53321.090:zhū,shǔ |
| kIICore | ATJKP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1533.020 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 53321.090 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1067.010 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-4A58 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C3C5 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3D73 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E7B7 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6E4B |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7870 |
| kJapanese | ショ ジョ チョ いも |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | IMO |
| kJapaneseOn | SHO JO |
| kJis0 | 2983 |
| kKangXi | 1067.010 |
| kKorean | CE |
| kLau | 2912 |
| kMandarin | shǔ |
| kMatthews | 5869 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2768 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023116 MJ023116:E0102 MJ023118:E0103 MJ023117:E0104 |
| kMorohashi | 32391:E0103 |
| kNelson | 4093 |
| kPhonetic | 259 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2429+140.3.15 V+7702+140.3.16 |
| kRSUnicode | 140.16 |
| kSBGY | 070.20 362.22 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+85AF<kLau,kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "𫉄" U+2B244 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 604.11 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5675 |
| kTotalStrokes | 18 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 322:350 |
| kXHC1983 | 1067.031:shǔ |