U+54AC "咬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
咬
U+54AC "咬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that means "to bite" or "to snap at," and it also conveys the idea of chewing or gnawing, often used metaphorically to describe persistent effort or sharp criticism. This logogram, classified under the Kangxi radical 口 meaning "mouth," is composed of the "mouth" radical on the left and a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its pronunciation in Mandarin as "yǎo." In modern usage, it appears in common words like 咬住 (to bite down), 咬文嚼字 (to be pedantic about word choice), and 咬牙切齿 (to gnash one's teeth in anger), illustrating its versatility in both literal and figurative contexts within written Chinese.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+54AC |
| 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 | 咬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 咬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x92 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x54AC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000054AC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u54ac |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | AB72 |
| kCCCII | 213623 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5036 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5036 |
| kCangjie | RYCK |
| kCantonese | ngaau5 |
| kCihaiT | 271.201 |
| kCowles | 1500 3012 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0406.010 |
| kDefinition | bite, gnaw |
| kEACC | 213623 |
| kFanqie | 古肴 於交 五巧 |
| kFennIndex | 618.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6004.8 |
| kGB0 | 5007 |
| kGB1 | 5007 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 1166g |
| kHangul | 교:0N |
| kHanYu | 10621.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu | yǎo(166) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10621.020:yǎo,jiāo,yāo,jiǎo |
| kHKGlyph | 0556 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0406.010 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10621.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0186.160 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5227 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-AB72 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-527B |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D0C8 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4E61 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5036 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4F22 |
| kJapanese | コウ オウ ゴウ ヨウ カイ ギョウ キョウ かむ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:1512 |
| kJapaneseKun | KAMU |
| kJapaneseOn | KOU GOU YOU |
| kJis0 | 5091 |
| kKangXi | 0186.160 |
| kKarlgren | 357 |
| kKorean | KYO |
| kLau | 2323 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0747 |
| kMandarin | yǎo |
| kMatthews | 7298 |
| kMeyerWempe | 993b 2028 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008228 MJ008228:E0102 MJ008229:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 03543 03543:E0102 |
| kNelson | 0919 |
| kPhonetic | 553 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4368+30.3.6 V+20277+30.3.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.6 |
| kSBGY | 152.15 154.42 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+9F69<kLau,kMatthews |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 100.08 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | yǎo粵ngaau5 jiāo粵gaau1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0747 |
| kTang | gǎu |
| kTGHZ2013 | 428.060:yǎo |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | rao |
| kXerox | 250:141 |
| kXHC1983 | 1342.110:yǎo |