U+5480 "咀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
咀
U+5480 "咀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in both traditional and simplified writing systems, primarily meaning "to chew" or "to masticate." It often appears in compound words like "咀嚼" (jǔjué), which denotes the act of chewing food, and can also imply deliberation or pondering in a figurative sense, as in "咀嚼文字" meaning to savor or repeatedly consider the meaning of words. Historically, the character is composed of the radical "口" (mouth) on the left, indicating its oral association, and the phonetic component "且" (qiě) on the right, which provides a hint to its pronunciation. In modern usage, it is most commonly encountered in literary contexts or idiomatic expressions rather than everyday conversation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5480 |
| 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 | 咀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 咀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x92 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5480 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005480 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5480 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A943 |
| kCCCII | 213570 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4C45 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4C45 |
| kCangjie | RBM |
| kCantonese | zeoi2 |
| kCihaiT | 269.203 |
| kCowles | 4628 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0403.030 |
| kDefinition | suck; chew, masticate |
| kEACC | 27373D |
| kFanqie | 慈吕 子與 乙鎋 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6701.0 |
| kGB0 | 3055 |
| kGB1 | 3055 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kGSR | 0046u |
| kHangul | 저:0N |
| kHanYu | 10599.170 |
| kHanyuPinlu | jǔ(15) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10599.170:jǔ |
| kHKGlyph | 0540 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0403.030 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10599.170 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0184.030 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3E57 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A943 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5272 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E7A6 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6E3A |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4C45 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4E73 |
| kJapanese | ソ ショ ジョ かむ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:3911 |
| kJapaneseKun | KAMU |
| kJapaneseOn | SO SHO |
| kJis0 | 5082 |
| kKangXi | 0184.030 |
| kKorean | CE |
| kLau | 1590 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0731 |
| kMandarin | jǔ |
| kMatthews | 1573 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3474b |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008184 |
| kMorohashi | 03476 |
| kNelson | 0907 |
| kPhonetic | 97 287 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4359+30.3.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.5 |
| kSBGY | 259.02 259.43 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+89DC<kLau U+5634<kLau |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 97.09 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | jǔ粵zeoi2 zuǐ粵zeoi2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0731 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 184.190:jǔ 495.120:zuǐ |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | thở |
| kXerox | 260:142 |
| kXHC1983 | 0613.030:jǔ 1548.020:zuǐ |