U+85B9 "薹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
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U+85B9 "薹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily refers to the flowering stalk or stem of certain plants, especially the bolting stem of vegetables like garlic chives or rapeseed that shoots up before blooming. In botanical and culinary contexts, it is often used to describe the tender, edible part of these plants, such as in "蒜薹" (garlic scapes) or "菜薹" (flowering cabbage stems). Its radical is the grass radical (艹), indicating its association with plants, and it is pronounced as "tái" in Mandarin, with a structure that conveys the idea of a raised or elevated stalk emerging from the earth.
General Properties
Code Point
U+85B9
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
薹
HTML Hex Encoding
薹
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE8 0x96 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding
0x85B9
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000085B9
C/C++/Java Escape
\u85b9
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
C2CA
kCCCII
23266C
kCNS1986
1-7736
kCNS1992
1-7736
kCangjie
TGRG
kCantonese
toi4
kCihaiT
1174.401
kDaeJaweon
1527.330
kDefinition
Cyperus rotundus, nut grass
kEACC
23266C
kFanqie
徒哀
kFourCornerCode
4410.4
kGB0
6223
kGB1
6223
kHanYu
53310.040
kHanyuPinyin
53310.040:tái
kIICore
AGT
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
53310.040
kIRG_GSource
G0-5E37
kIRG_HSource
HB1-C2CA
kIRG_JSource
J0-6937
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-7004
kIRG_KSource
K2-5A38
kIRG_TSource
T1-7736
kJapanese
ダイ タイ あぶらな とう
kTGH
2013:6205
kJapaneseKun
ABURANA TOU
kJapaneseOn
TAI DAI
kJis0
7323
kKangXi
1063.040
kMainlandTelegraph
5653
kMandarin
tái
kMatthews
6019
kMeyerWempe
3199b
kMojiJoho
MJ023004 MJ023004:E0101 MJ023005:E0102
kMorohashi
32204:E0102
kNelson
4079
kPhonetic
1374
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+6462+140.3.14
kRSUnicode
140.14
kSBGY
099.17
kSMSZD2003Index
603.01
kSMSZD2003Readings
tái粵toi4
kTaiwanTelegraph
5653
kTGHZ2013
357.040:tái
kTotalStrokes
17
kUnihanCore2020
GHJMT
kXerox
271:261
kXHC1983
1108.050:tái