U+5403 "吃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

吃

U+5403 "吃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character meaning "to eat," and it is one of the most common and essential characters in the Chinese writing system. It belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, used across these languages with similar meanings and often similar pronunciations. The character is composed of the radical "口" (mouth) on the left, indicating the action involves the mouth, and the phonetic component "乞" on the right, which provides a clue to its pronunciation. In modern usage, "吃" appears in everyday contexts such as eating food, taking medicine, or even metaphorically in phrases like "吃苦" (to endure hardship). Its simplicity and frequency make it a fundamental part of vocabulary learning for students of Chinese.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5403
Version Added	1.1
Name	CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Block	CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	吃
HTML Hex Encoding	吃
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x90 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5403
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005403
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5403

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Han
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	OLetter
Ideographic	Yes
Unified Ideograph	Yes

Unihan Properties

kBigFive	A659
kCCCII	213547
kCNS1986	1-475A
kCNS1992	1-475A
kCangjie	RON
kCantonese	hek3
kCihaiT	248.602
kCowles	999 1563
kDaeJaweon	0387.100
kDefinition	eat; drink; suffer, endure, bear
kEACC	213547
kFanqie	居乙
kFenn	298A
kFennIndex	71.12
kFourCornerCode	6801.7
kGB0	1952
kGB1	1952
kGradeLevel	1
kGSR	0517g
kHangul	흘:0N
kHanYu	10579.050
kHanyuPinlu	chī(1684)
kHanyuPinyin	10579.050:chī,qī
kHKGlyph	0503
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0387.100
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10579.050
kIRGKangXi	0174.170
kIRG_GSource	G0-3354
kIRG_HSource	HB1-A659
kIRG_JSource	J0-3549
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-F5AD
kIRG_KSource	K0-7D5E
kIRG_TSource	T1-475A
kIRG_VSource	V0-3067
kJapanese	キツケツコチどもる
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:429
kJapaneseKun	DOMORU
kJapaneseOn	KITSU
kJis0	2141
kKangXi	0174.170
kKarlgren	332
kKorean	HUL
kLau	1162 3305
kMainlandTelegraph	0676
kMandarin	chī
kMatthews	1047
kMeyerWempe	678a
kMojiJoho	MJ008057
kMorohashi	03280
kNelson	0880
kPhonetic	440
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+1635+30.3.3
kRSUnicode	30.3
kSBGY	477.11
kSemanticVariant	U+55AB<kLau,kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index	90.01
kSMSZD2003Readings	chī粵hek3 chī,jī粵gat1,kek3
kTaiwanTelegraph	0676
kTGHZ2013	045.010:chī
kTotalStrokes	6
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kVietnamese	khật
kXerox	241:312
kXHC1983	0141.070:chī