U+5493 "咓" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5493 "咓" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare or obscure Chinese character (hanzi) that appears in the Unicode Standard for ideographic script support. Its composition typically combines a semantic radical related to the mouth or speech, suggested by the left component "口", with a phonetic component "瓦" on the right, which can be read as wǎ. While its exact meaning in modern standard Mandarin is obscure and it is not frequently used in contemporary texts, it may historically have represented a specific sound or onomatopoeia, or served as a variant form for other characters in classical or technical usage. Because of its rarity, the character is primarily of interest to linguists, paleographers, and those involved in digital encoding of historical or specialized Chinese text.

General Properties

Code Point U+5493
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 咓
HTML Hex Encoding 咓
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x92 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5493
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005493
C/C++/Java Escape \u5493

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

kCCCII 236D69
kCNS1986 E-276F
kCNS1992 3-276F
kCangjie RMVN
kCantonese aa5
kCheungBauer 030/05;RMVN;aa5
kCheungBauerIndex 349.07
kDefinition (Cant.) final particle
kHanYu 10588.060
kHanyuPinyin 10588.060:wǎ
kIICore CH
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10588.060
kIRGKangXi 0185.211
kIRG_GSource GE-334A
kIRG_HSource H-89F0
kIRG_JSource JMJ-008207
kIRG_TSource T3-276F
kJapanese ガ ゲ
kKangXi 0185.211
kMandarin
kMojiJoho MJ008207
kMorohashi 03511
kRSUnicode 30.5
kTotalStrokes 7
kUnihanCore2020 H