U+5420 "吠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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

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kCCCII 21355A
kCNS1986 1-4952
kCNS1992 1-4952
kCangjie RIK
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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