U+54B5 "咵" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+54B5 "咵" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used in Mandarin and some regional dialects, such as in parts of southwestern China like Sichuan and Hubei, where it is pronounced "kuǎ" and commonly appears in spoken vernacular to convey a sense of boasting, bragging, or chatting casually. Its structure combines the radical "口" (mouth), indicating speech or sound, with the phonetic component "夸" (kuā), which means to exaggerate or praise, thus linking it to expressions related to loud or boastful talking. While not frequently used in formal or classical Chinese literature, it appears in modern colloquial contexts, especially in phrases like "咵天" (kuǎ tiān), meaning to chat idly or shoot the breeze, highlighting its role in informal, everyday communication.

General Properties

Code Point U+54B5
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 咵
HTML Hex Encoding 咵
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x92 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding 0x54B5
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000054B5
C/C++/Java Escape \u54b5

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 216F64
kCNS1986 E-2B5E
kCNS1992 3-2B5E
kCangjie RKMS
kCantonese kwaa1
kDaeJaweon 0406.140
kDefinition to revile
kEACC 216F64
kFenn 242K
kFennIndex 264.08
kGB5 2425
kHanYu 10613.130
kHanyuPinyin 10613.130:kuǎ
kIRGDaeJaweon 0406.140
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10613.120
kIRGKangXi 0187.130
kIRG_GSource G5-3839
kIRG_JSource JMJ-008240
kIRG_KSource K2-267D
kIRG_TSource T3-2B5E
kJapanese カ ケ
kJapaneseOn KUU KE
kKangXi 0187.130
kMandarin kuǎ
kMatthews 3527
kMojiJoho MJ008240 MJ008239:E0100 MJ008240:E0101
kMorohashi 03557:E0100
kPhonetic 701
kRSUnicode 30.6
kSMSZD2003Index 102.13
kTotalStrokes 9
kXHC1983 0656.031:kuǎ