U+542E "吮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
吮
U+542E "吮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to suck" or "to sip," often used in contexts involving the action of drawing liquid into the mouth, such as sucking on a straw or nursing. It is composed of the mouth radical (口) on the left, indicating an oral action, and the phonetic component (允) on the right. This character appears in classical and modern Chinese texts, including medical references to sucking venom or herbal remedies. In Japanese, it is used in similar senses, such as in the word "suck" (吸う) though less commonly, and it is recognized in both traditional and simplified Chinese writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+542E |
| 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 | 吮 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 吮 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x90 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x542E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000542E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u542e |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A76D |
| kCCCII | 21355E |
| kCNS1986 | 1-494F |
| kCNS1992 | 1-494F |
| kCangjie | RIHU |
| kCantonese | syun5 |
| kCihaiT | 263.301 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0396.060 |
| kDefinition | suck with mouth, sip, lick |
| kEACC | 21355E |
| kFanqie | 食尹 徂兖 |
| kFenn | 869H |
| kFennIndex | 562.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6301.0 |
| kGB0 | 4317 |
| kGB1 | 4317 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kGSR | 0468m |
| kHangul | 전:1N |
| kHanYu | 10597.040 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10597.040:shǔn |
| kHKGlyph | 0531 |
| kIICore | AGTHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0396.060 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10597.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0178.200 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4B31 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A76D |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5264 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3960 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6B74 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-494F |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-8A66 |
| kJapanese | セン エン シュン ジュン すう |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:752 |
| kJapaneseKun | SUU |
| kJapaneseOn | SEN SHUN |
| kJis0 | 5068 |
| kKangXi | 0178.200 |
| kKarlgren | 293 |
| kKorean | CEN |
| kLau | 2929 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0700 |
| kMandarin | shǔn |
| kMatthews | 5929 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2774a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008103 |
| kMorohashi | 03356 |
| kPhonetic | 1444 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4345+30.3.4 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.4 |
| kSBGY | 278.16 293.16 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 93.02 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | shǔn粵syun5 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0700 |
| kTang | jhuǐn |
| kTGHZ2013 | 345.020:shǔn |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJMT |
| kXerox | 272:161 |
| kXHC1983 | 1081.020:shǔn |