Radical 186, meaning "fragrant", is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 9 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 37 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

香 is also the 183rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

• Oracle bone script character
• Bronze script character
• Large seal script character
• Small seal script character

As an isolated character is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.^[1]

It is one of the 20 kanji added to the Kyoiku kanji that are found in the names of the following prefectures of Japan.^[2] It was added because it is a character in 香 (Kagawa).^[2]