U+5499 "咙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5499 "咙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional and simplified Chinese character that primarily refers to the throat or larynx, often used in compound words such as "喉咙" (hóu lóng), meaning throat. It functions as a phonetic component or a radical in some other characters, and its structure combines the mouth radical (口) with the character 龙 (lóng, meaning dragon) to suggest a sound or shape related to the throat. While its usage is common in everyday Chinese for describing the anatomical part, it also appears in literary or medical contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5499
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	咙
HTML Hex Encoding	咙
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x92 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5499
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005499
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5499

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	273756
kCangjie	RIKP
kCantonese	lung4
kDefinition	throat
kEACC	273756
kFourCornerCode	6301
kGB0	3392
kHanYu	10599.110
kHanyuPinlu	lóng(26)
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10599.110
kIRGKangXi	0185.211
kIRG_GSource	G0-417C
kTGH	2013:1089
kKangXi	0185.211
kMainlandTelegraph	0918
kMandarin	lóng
kPhonetic	856*
kRSUnicode	30.5
kSMSZD2003Index	99.19
kTGHZ2013	230.010:lóng
kTotalStrokes	8
kTraditionalVariant	"嚨" U+56A8 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0732.070:lóng