U+542C "听" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
听
U+542C "听" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to listen" or "to hear," and it is widely used in both simplified Chinese and Japanese scripts. Its composition combines the radical for "mouth" on the left, representing speech or sound, with the element for "斤" on the right, which historically contributed to its phonetic pronunciation. In modern usage, this character appears in common words like "听见" (tīngjiàn) meaning "to hear" and "听讲" (tīngjiǎng) meaning "to listen to a lecture," and it plays a fundamental role in everyday communication, education, and written texts across East Asian languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+542C |
| 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 | 听 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 听 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x90 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x542C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000542C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u542c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A776 |
| kCCCII | 216F28 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4958 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4958 |
| kCangjie | RHML |
| kCantonese | ting1 |
| kCihaiT | 262.201 |
| kCowles | 4345 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0396.020 |
| kDefinition | hear; understand; obey, comply |
| kEACC | 27527B |
| kFanqie | 宜引 牛謹 |
| kFennIndex | 527.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6202.1 |
| kGB0 | 4493 |
| kHangul | 은:1N |
| kHanYu | 10591.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu | tīng(2028) ting(48) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10591.020:yǐn,yí,tīng |
| kIICore | AGT |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0396.020 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10591.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0178.160 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4C7D |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A776 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5261 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3966 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6A2E |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4958 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4E58 |
| kJapanese | キン ギン テイ チョウ ギツ ゴチ ギ ゲ ポンド わらう |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:739 |
| kJapaneseKun | WARAU PONDO |
| kJapaneseOn | KIN GIN |
| kJis0 | 5065 |
| kKangXi | 0178.160 |
| kKorean | UN |
| kLau | 3049 3061 3062 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 8126 |
| kMandarin | tīng |
| kMatthews | 6402 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3052 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008101 |
| kMorohashi | 03352 |
| kPhonetic | 571 1343 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4342+30.3.4 C+4342+69.4.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.4 |
| kSBGY | 276.20 280.08 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+807D<kLau,kMatthews |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "听" U+542C CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 95.22 |
| kSpecializedSemanticVariant | U+807D<kFenn |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 8203 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 367.140:tīng |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "听" U+542C CJK Unified Ideograph-# "聽" U+807D CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJMT |
| kVietnamese | thính |
| kXHC1983 | 1145.030:tīng |