U+545E "呞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+545E "呞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character that primarily functions as a variant or ancient form of the character "飼" (sì), meaning "to feed" or "to raise animals," often referring to livestock or domesticated creatures. Its structure combines the mouth radical (口) on the left, suggesting speech or sound, with a phonetic component on the right that indicates its pronunciation and semantic relation to feeding. This character appears in historical Chinese texts, particularly in classical dictionaries and literary works, but is seldom used in modern standard Chinese. It belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, which encompasses logographs shared across East Asian writing systems, and its usage is largely confined to specialized linguistic or archival contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+545E
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 呞
HTML Hex Encoding 呞
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x91 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding 0x545E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000545E
C/C++/Java Escape \u545e

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 216F34
kCangjie RSMR
kCantonese si1
kCihaiT 269.303
kDaeJaweon 0399.280
kGB3 2185
kHanYu 10609.020
kHanyuPinyin 10609.020:shī
kIRGDaeJaweon 0399.280
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10609.020
kIRGKangXi 0181.210
kIRG_GSource G3-3575
kIRG_JSource J1-3474
kIRG_KSource K2-2656
kIRG_TSource T4-2563
kIRG_VSource V1-4E66
kJapanese シ チ
kJapaneseKun KAMIKAESU
kJapaneseOn SHI CHI
kJis1 2084
kKangXi 0181.210
kMandarin shī
kMojiJoho MJ008148
kMorohashi 03426
kPhonetic 1169*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+21257+30.3.5
kRSUnicode 30.5
kSBGY 060.36
kTotalStrokes 8
kVietnamese te