U+54A9 "咩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
咩
U+54A9 "咩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used primarily to represent the bleating sound of a sheep or goat, functioning as an onomatopoeic word. It also serves as a first-person pronoun in some regional dialects of Chinese, particularly in Cantonese and other southern varieties, where it carries a casual or intimate tone similar to "I" or "me." The character is composed of the "mouth" radical on the left, indicating its connection to sound or speech, and the phonetic component "羊" (yáng, meaning sheep) on the right, which hints at its pronunciation and semantic link to ovine noises.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+54A9 |
| 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 | 咩 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 咩 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x92 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x54A9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000054A9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u54a9 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | ABA7 |
| kCCCII | 21357E |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5049 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5049 |
| kCangjie | RTQ |
| kCantonese | me1 |
| kCheungBauer | 030/06;RTQ;me1 |
| kCheungBauerIndex | 354.05 |
| kCihaiT | 272.601 |
| kCowles | 2648 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0405.340 |
| kDefinition | the bleating of sheep; (Cant.) an interrogative particle |
| kEACC | 21357E |
| kFanqie | 綿婢 |
| kFenn | 151H |
| kFennIndex | 340.10 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6805.1 |
| kGB0 | 6367 |
| kGB1 | 6367 |
| kHanYu | 10613.010 10622.050 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10613.010:miē 10622.050:miē,mie |
| kHKGlyph | 0558 |
| kIBMJapan | FA93 |
| kIICore | AGTHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0405.340 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10622.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0186.130 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5F63 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-ABA7 |
| kIRG_JSource | J13-2F21 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-2675 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5049 |
| kJapanese | ビ ミ |
| kTGH | 2013:4225 |
| kJIS0213 | 1,15,01 |
| kJapaneseOn | BI MI |
| kJis1 | 2115 |
| kKangXi | 0186.130 |
| kKorean | MI |
| kLau | 2120 |
| kMandarin | miē |
| kMatthews | 4482 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1800 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008225 |
| kMorohashi | 03540 |
| kPhonetic | 1530 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+8413+30.3.6 C+8413+123.6.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.6 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+54F6<kFenn |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 102.03 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | miē粵me1 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 253.070:miē |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kXerox | 267:140 |
| kXHC1983 | 0789.020:miē |