U+5494 "咔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5494 "咔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as an onomatopoeia, representing the sound of a clicking, cracking, or snapping noise, such as the click of a camera shutter or the sound of something breaking. It is composed of the radical for "mouth" (口) on the left, indicating its relation to sound or speech, and the phonetic component "ka" on the right. In modern usage, it appears in terms like "咔嚓" (kāchā) for crisp breaking sounds and is also used in transliterating foreign names or words, such as in the common coffee drink name "卡布奇诺" (kǎbùqínuò) for cappuccino. The character is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block in the Unicode standard, with its primary use in written Chinese and Japanese contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5494
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	咔
HTML Hex Encoding	咔
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x92 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5494
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005494
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5494

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	216F42
kCNS1986	E-2777
kCNS1992	3-2777
kCangjie	RYMY
kCantonese	kaa1
kCheungBauer	030/05;RYMY;kaa4
kCheungBauerIndex	351.01
kDefinition	used in translation
kEACC	216F42
kFourCornerCode	6103
kGB0	6339
kGB1	6339
kHanYu	10599.140
kHanyuPinyin	10599.140:nòng,kā,kǎ
kIICore	BGTH
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10599.140
kIRGKangXi	0185.211
kIRG_GSource	G0-5F47
kIRG_HSource	H-9E47
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-008208
kIRG_TSource	T3-2777
kJapanese	ロウ
kTGH	2013:3908
kJapaneseOn	ROU
kKangXi	0185.211
kMainlandTelegraph	3931
kMandarin	kā
kMojiJoho	MJ008208
kMorohashi	03517
kPhonetic	536*
kRSUnicode	30.5
kSMSZD2003Index	99.04
kSMSZD2003Readings	kǎ粵kaa1
kTGHZ2013	191.010:kā 191.050:kǎ
kTotalStrokes	8
kUnihanCore2020	GH
kXerox	317:241
kXHC1983	0625.030:kā 0626.010:kǎ