U+546B "呫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+546B "呫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that historically functions as a verb meaning "to taste" or "to sip," often implying a small, careful intake of liquid, and it also carries a secondary meaning of "to whisper" or "to murmur," referencing the movement of the lips. In classical Chinese texts, its usage is relatively rare, appearing in literary contexts rather than in modern standard Mandarin, where it is considered a variant or obscure character. The character is composed of the "mouth" radical (口) on the left, indicating speech or oral action, and the phonetic component "占" on the right, which contributes to its pronunciation (roughly similar to "zhàn" or "chè" depending on the reading). As part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, it follows the East Asian tradition of logographic writing, where each character encapsulates meaning, sound, and history in a single glyph.

General Properties

Code Point	U+546B
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	呫
HTML Hex Encoding	呫
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x91 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding	0x546B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000546B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u546b

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

kBigFive	CBE1
kCCCII	216F43
kCNS1986	2-2561
kCNS1992	2-2561
kCangjie	RYR
kCantonese	tip3
kCihaiT	269.102
kDaeJaweon	0401.050
kDefinition	whisper; lick, taste; petty
kEACC	216F43
kFanqie	他協
kFourCornerCode	6106.0
kGB3	2173
kGSR	0618p
kHangul	첩:1N
kHanYu	10599.150
kHanyuPinyin	10599.150:tiè,chè
kIRGDaeJaweon	0401.050
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10599.150
kIRGKangXi	0182.040
kIRG_GSource	G3-3569
kIRG_HSource	HB2-CBE1
kIRG_JSource	J13-2E79
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-3984
kIRG_KSource	K1-6F55
kIRG_TSource	T2-2561
kIRG_VSource	V1-4E6B
kJapanese	ショウ チョウ テン ささやく しゃべる なめる
kKoreanName	2015
kJIS0213	1,14,89
kJapaneseKun	NAMERU SASAYAKU SHABERU
kJapaneseOn	TEHU SEHU TEN
kJis1	2090
kKangXi	0182.040
kKorean	CHEP
kMandarin	tiè
kMatthews	6327
kMojiJoho	MJ008162
kMorohashi	03446
kPhonetic	177
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+14378+30.3.5
kRSUnicode	30.5
kSBGY	541.10
kSMSZD2003Index	96.09
kSMSZD2003Readings	tiè粵tip3 chè粵cip3
kTaiwanTelegraph	0723
kTotalStrokes	8
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kVietnamese	chím
kXerox	271:346