U+54B3 "咳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
咳
U+54B3 "咳" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as a verb meaning to cough, and it is also used as a gentle interjection or expression indicating a mild reprimand or attention, as in the phrase "咳, 别这样" (Hey, don't be like that). Pronounced as "ké" in Mandarin when referring to coughing, and as "hāi" when used as an exclamation, this character is composed of the mouth radical (口) on the left, suggesting speech or sound, and a phonetic component on the right. It appears in various compound words such as "咳嗽" (to cough) and "咳声叹气" (to sigh and cough in frustration), reflecting its dual role in both medical and conversational contexts within written Chinese.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+54B3 |
| 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 | 咳 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 咳 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x92 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x54B3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000054B3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u54b3 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | AB79 |
| kCCCII | 213625 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-503D |
| kCNS1992 | 1-503D |
| kCangjie | RYVO |
| kCantonese | kat1 |
| kCihaiT | 271.304 |
| kCowles | 1131 1928 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0406.120 |
| kDefinition | cough |
| kEACC | 213625 |
| kFanqie | 戶來 苦格 |
| kFenn | 874D |
| kFennIndex | 145.10 253.09 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6008.2 |
| kGB0 | 3140 |
| kGB1 | 3140 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 0937g |
| kHangul | 해:0N |
| kHanYu | 10622.040 |
| kHanyuPinlu | hāi(46) ké(39) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10622.040:hái,hāi,ké,gāi |
| kHKGlyph | 0560 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0406.120 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10622.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0187.100 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3F48 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-AB79 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3331 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F5BC |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7A26 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-503D |
| kIRG_VSource | V0-3138 |
| kJapanese | ガイ カイ アイ せき しわぶき |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:1513 |
| kJapaneseKun | SEKI |
| kJapaneseOn | GAI |
| kJis0 | 1917 |
| kKangXi | 0187.100 |
| kKarlgren | 56 |
| kKorean | HAY |
| kLau | 1665 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0750 |
| kMandarin | hāi |
| kMatthews | 3323 |
| kMeyerWempe | 764 1061 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008237 |
| kMorohashi | 03555 |
| kNelson | 0921 |
| kPhonetic | 490 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1423+30.3.6 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.6 |
| kSBGY | 100.50 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+6B2C<kMatthews |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 100.13 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | ké粵kat1 hāi粵haai1 kài粵koi3 |
| kSpecializedSemanticVariant | U+6B2C<kFenn |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0750 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 128.070:hāi 195.170:ké |
| kTotalStrokes | 9 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | cay |
| kXerox | 253:161 |
| kXHC1983 | 0432.020:hāi 0639.040:ké |