U+5420 "吠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
吠
U+5420 "吠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to bark" and is commonly used to describe the sound made by dogs. Its structure combines the radical for "mouth" on the left, which indicates speech or sound, with a phonetic component on the right that hints at its pronunciation. In classical and modern Chinese texts, this character appears in contexts related to animal vocalizations, and it is also used in compound words such as "狂吠" meaning "to bark wildly" or "to howl."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5420 |
| 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 | 吠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 吠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x90 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5420 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005420 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5420 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A770 |
| kCCCII | 21355A |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4952 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4952 |
| kCangjie | RIK |
| kCantonese | fai6 |
| kCihaiT | 257.601 |
| kCowles | 695 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0395.040 |
| kDefinition | bark |
| kEACC | 21355A |
| kFanqie | 符廢 |
| kFenn | 457G |
| kFennIndex | 134.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6303.4 |
| kGB0 | 2345 |
| kGB1 | 2345 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kGSR | 0348a |
| kHangul | 폐:0N |
| kHanYu | 10587.020 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10587.020:fèi |
| kHKGlyph | 0516 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0395.040 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10587.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0177.220 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-374D |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A770 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4B4A |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F2B0 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7845 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4952 |
| kJapanese | ハイ バイ ベイ ほえ ほえる |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:724 |
| kJapaneseKun | HOERU HOE |
| kJapaneseOn | HAI BAI |
| kJis0 | 4342 |
| kKangXi | 0177.220 |
| kKarlgren | 498 |
| kKorean | PHYEY |
| kLau | 667 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0693 |
| kMandarin | fèi |
| kMatthews | 1837 |
| kMeyerWempe | 476 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008088 |
| kMorohashi | 03331 |
| kNelson | 0897 |
| kPhonetic | 349 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+3704+30.3.4 C+3704+94.4.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.4 |
| kSBGY | 391.33 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 92.11 415.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | fèi粵fai6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0693 |
| kTang | bhiæ̀i |
| kTGHZ2013 | 095.150:fèi |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 265:062 |
| kXHC1983 | 0316.060:fèi |