U+8535 "蔵" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+8535 "蔵" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character traditionally meaning "storehouse," "to store," or "to hide," and it is a variant of the more common character "藏" (cáng/zàng). In modern Japanese, it is used as a standard character (kokuji) in the jōyō kanji list, where it appears in words such as "金庫" (safe) or "貯蔵" (storage), and it also functions as a surname or component in compound terms. Its structure combines the radical for grass (艹) with elements suggesting concealment or preservation, reflecting its core semantic field of safeguarding or keeping something out of sight. Represented in Unicode since version 1.1, it belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block and is encoded with the UTF-8 bytes E8 8F 85.