U+85BA "薺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+85BA "薺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character used across multiple East Asian languages, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. It primarily refers to the shepherd's purse plant (Capsella bursa-pastoris), a small edible herb known for its medicinal and culinary uses, and in classical contexts it can also denote a tangy or sour taste. In Japanese, it is read as "nazuna" and is one of the seven spring herbs celebrated in the traditional festival. The character is composed of the grass radical on top, indicating its botanical nature, and a phonetic component below that suggests its pronunciation and meaning.
General Properties
Code Point
U+85BA
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
薺
HTML Hex Encoding
薺
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE8 0x96 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding
0x85BA
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000085BA
C/C++/Java Escape
\u85ba
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
C2C9
kCCCII
232661
kCNS1986
1-7735
kCNS1992
1-7735
kCangjie
TYX
kCantonese
cai5
kCihaiT
1174.305
kDaeJaweon
1527.340
kDefinition
water-chestnuts; caltrop
kEACC
232661
kFanqie
疾資 徂禮
kFourCornerCode
4422.3
kGB1
6089
kGSR
0593l
kHangul
제:0N
kHanYu
53315.110
kHanyuPinyin
53315.110:cí,jì,qì
kIICore
ATJKP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
53315.110
kIRG_GSource
G1-5C79
kIRG_HSource
HB1-C2C9
kIRG_JSource
J0-6935
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-EBF6
kIRG_KSource
K0-7031
kIRG_TSource
T1-7735
kJapanese
セイ シ ザイ ジ なずな
kKoreanName
2015
kJapaneseKun
NAZUNA
kJapaneseOn
SEI ZAI
kJis0
7321
kKangXi
1063.080
kKorean
CEY
kMandarin
jì
kMatthews
460
kMeyerWempe
3263b
kMojiJoho
MJ023006 MJ023006:E0101 MJ023007:E0102
kMorohashi
32208:E0102
kPhonetic
56*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+6460+140.3.14 C+6460+210.14.3
kRSUnicode
140.14
kSBGY
053.29 268.06
kSimplifiedVariant
kSMSZD2003Index
603.02
kSMSZD2003Readings
jì粵cai5 qi粵cai4
kTaiwanTelegraph
5654
kTang
dzhi
kTotalStrokes
18
kUnihanCore2020
HJKMPT
kXerox
264:363
kXHC1983
0532.021:jì 0895.011:qí