U+546E "呮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
呮
U+546E "呮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (Hanzi) used in written Chinese, primarily in classical or literary contexts. It is composed of the mouth radical (口) on the left and the phonetic component "只" (zhi) on the right, suggesting a connection to sound or speech. One of its known meanings is "to chirp" or "to twitter," often used in describing the sound of small birds. It can also function as a variant or component in certain names and words, though it is not commonly found in modern standard Chinese.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+546E |
| 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 | 呮 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 呮 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x91 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x546E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000546E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u546e |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 236D75 |
| kCangjie | RRC |
| kCantonese | kei4 |
| kCheungBauer | 030/05;;zek1 |
| kCheungBauerIndex | 352.01 |
| kCowles | 168 176.5 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0401.090 |
| kDefinition | to sit; (Cant.) only, merely; a final particle of intimacy |
| kHanYu | 10601.020 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10601.020:qì,zhī |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0401.090 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10601.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0182.070 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-3347 |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-347C |
| kIRG_TSource | T4-255F |
| kJapanese | キ |
| kJapaneseKun | KOSHIKAKERU |
| kJapaneseOn | KI |
| kJis1 | 2092 |
| kKangXi | 0182.070 |
| kKorean | KI |
| kMandarin | qì |
| kMeyerWempe | 187 198 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008165 |
| kMorohashi | 03450 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+21262+30.3.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.5 |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |