U+5414 "吔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5414 "吔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used in Cantonese and other southern Chinese dialects, where it functions as a colloquial interjection or verb meaning "to eat" in a rough or emphatic way, similar to saying "chow down" or "gobble" in English. It is composed of the radical for "mouth" (口) on the left and the phonetic component "也" (ye) on the right, indicating its pronunciation. In modern usage, especially in informal writing and online slang, "吔" often appears in expressions like "吔屎" (eat shit) as a vulgar insult, though it can also simply denote eating in a casual or aggressive tone. This character is not commonly used in formal Mandarin but remains recognizable in Cantonese media and texts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5414
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	吔
HTML Hex Encoding	吔
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x90 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5414
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005414
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5414

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

kCCCII	216E61
kCangjie	RPD
kCantonese	jaa1
kCheungBauer	030/03;RPD;jaa1,jaa2,jaa4,jaak3,je5
kCheungBauerIndex	347.07 347.08 348.01 348.02 348.03 348.04
kCowles	5082
kDefinition	(Cant.) an interjection; phonetic
kEACC	216E61
kGB3	2150
kHanYu	10584.090
kHanyuPinyin	10584.090:yě,yē
kIICore	CH
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10584.090
kIRGKangXi	0177.021
kIRG_GSource	G3-3552
kIRG_HSource	H-96EF
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-008077
kIRG_VSource	V1-4E50
kJapanese	ヤ タ
kJapaneseOn	SE
kKangXi	0177.021
kLau	3301
kMandarin	yě
kMeyerWempe	3795
kMojiJoho	MJ008077
kMorohashi	03315
kRSUnicode	30.3
kTaiwanTelegraph	9729
kTotalStrokes	6
kUnihanCore2020	H
kVietnamese	dã
kXerox	310:305