U+5470 "呰" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
呰
U+5470 "呰" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character with a complex meaning, primarily interpreted as "to slander" or "to backbite," often carrying a sense of verbal attack or fault-finding. In classical Chinese texts, it can also function as a verb meaning "to criticize" or "to reproach," and it sometimes appears in compounds related to disparagement or harm. Its structure includes the mouth radical (口), indicating speech or oral action, combined with the phonetic component "此" which contributes to its pronunciation, estimated in Mandarin as zǐ or cī depending on the context. This character is relatively rare in modern Chinese but appears in historical literature, reflecting nuanced interpersonal conflict or rhetorical accusation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5470 |
| 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 | 呰 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 呰 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x91 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5470 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005470 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5470 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | CE49 |
| kCCCII | 216F68 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-294A |
| kCNS1992 | 2-294A |
| kCangjie | YPR |
| kCantonese | zi2 |
| kCihaiT | 269.103 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0401.110 |
| kDefinition | to slander, revile |
| kEACC | 216F68 |
| kFanqie | 將此 徂禮 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2160.1 |
| kGB3 | 2204 |
| kHangul | 자:1N |
| kHanYu | 10614.080 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10614.080:zǐ,cī,jī,xì |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0401.110 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10614.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0182.090 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-3624 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-CE49 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-526F |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-397E |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6A6F |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-294A |
| kJapanese | シ ジ セキ シャク セイ サ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | SEMERU SOSHIRU KIZU |
| kJapaneseOn | SHI SA SEKI |
| kJis0 | 5079 |
| kKangXi | 0182.090 |
| kKorean | CA |
| kMandarin | zǐ |
| kMeyerWempe | 3535a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008167 |
| kMorohashi | 03452 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4356+30.3.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.5 |
| kSBGY | 246.07 |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJMT |
| kXHC1983 | 1530.190:zǐ |