U+548F "咏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
咏
U+548F "咏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to chant," "to intone," or "to sing," often in a poetic or lyrical context. It is composed of the radical 口 (mouth, speech) on the left and 永 (eternity, long) on the right, serving as both a phonetic and semantic component, with the latter conveying a sense of prolonged or flowing expression. This character appears frequently in classical and modern Chinese literature, particularly in terms like 咏叹 (to chant with emotion) and 咏怀 (to express one's feelings through verse), emphasizing the act of vocalizing or celebrating ideas, scenes, or emotions in a rhythmic manner.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+548F |
| 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 | 咏 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 咏 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x92 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x548F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000548F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u548f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 216F2B |
| kCNS1986 | E-2773 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-2773 |
| kCangjie | RINE |
| kCantonese | wing6 |
| kCihaiT | 269.205 |
| kCowles | 3302 5052 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0405.010 |
| kDefinition | sing song or poem, hum, chant |
| kEACC | 2D584D |
| kFanqie | 爲命 |
| kFenn | 521G |
| kFennIndex | 641.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6303.2 |
| kGB0 | 5129 |
| kGB1 | 5129 |
| kGSR | 0764g |
| kHangul | 영:1N |
| kHanYu | 10609.010 |
| kIICore | AGTJK |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0405.010 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10609.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0185.070 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-533D |
| kIRG_HSource | H-FAF8 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5269 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3992 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6762 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-2773 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4E7A |
| kJapanese | エイ ヨウ うたう |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:1101 |
| kJapaneseKun | UTAU |
| kJapaneseOn | EI |
| kJis0 | 5073 |
| kKangXi | 0185.070 |
| kKarlgren | 261 |
| kKorean | YENG |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0737 |
| kMandarin | yǒng |
| kMatthews | 7591 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3769 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008202 |
| kMorohashi | 03494 |
| kNelson | 0902 |
| kPhonetic | 1452 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4350+30.3.5 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.5 |
| kSBGY | 429.32 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+8A60<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "咏" U+548F CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 99.12 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0737 |
| kTang | hiuæ̀ng |
| kTGHZ2013 | 442.020:yǒng |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "咏" U+548F CJK Unified Ideograph-# "詠" U+8A60 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJ |
| kVietnamese | vẳng |
| kXerox | 315:105 |
| kXHC1983 | 1392.040:yǒng |