U+85AB "" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+85AB "" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a kanji meaning fragrant, aroma, or incense, and is widely used in East Asian languages, particularly in Japanese, where it carries a strong cultural association with the scent of burning incense or herbs. It appears in compounds like “薫風” (kunpuu, “fragrant breeze”) and is also a component in personal names. In the Unicode standard, this character is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block and is encoded for digital text representation across multiple scripts.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
薫
HTML Hex Encoding
薫
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE8 0x96 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding
0x85AB
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000085AB
C/C++/Java Escape
\u85ab

Unihan Properties

kCNS1986
E-562C
kCNS1992
3-562C
kCangjie
XTHGF
kCantonese
fan1
kDaeJaweon
1527.040
kDefinition
a medicinal herb; to cauterize
kFourCornerCode
4433.1
kHangul
훈:N
kHanYu
53302.121
kIICore
AJ
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
53302.121
kIRG_GSource
GE-4A4B
kIRG_JSource
J0-3730
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-6FE9
kIRG_KSource
K2-5A2D
kIRG_MSource
MD-85AB
kIRG_TSource
T3-562C
kJapanese
クン かおる かおり
kJoyoKanji
2010
kKoreanName
2015
kJapaneseKun
KAORU KAORIGUSA KAORI
kJapaneseOn
KUN
kJis0
2316
kKangXi
1062.441
kKorean
HWUN
kMandarin
xūn
kMojiJoho
MJ022971 MJ022971:E0101 MJ022973:E0102 MJ022972:E0103
kMorohashi
32173 32173:E0101
kNelson
4073
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+1798+140.3.13
kRSUnicode
140.13
kTotalStrokes
16
kUnihanCore2020
J
kJapaneseOldVariant
U+85B0