U+54B8 "咸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

咸

U+54B8 "咸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily carries the meanings of "salty" or "all" and "entirely," functioning both as an adjective describing taste and as a quantifier in classical contexts. In modern usage, it is most commonly associated with the taste of salt, as in the word "咸味" (salty flavor), while in classical Chinese it also appears in expressions like "老少咸宜" (suitable for all ages), meaning everyone or everything. The character is composed of the radical 口 (mouth) and the component 戌, though its etymological roots relate to the concept of saltiness and completeness. It is widely used in both spoken and written Chinese, and appears in compound terms such as "咸菜" (pickled vegetables) and "咸水" (saltwater), making it a practical and historically rich character in the CJK script system.

General Properties

Code Point	U+54B8
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	咸
HTML Hex Encoding	咸
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x92 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x54B8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000054B8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u54b8

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

kBigFive	AB77
kCCCII	21362C
kCNS1986	1-503B
kCNS1992	1-503B
kCangjie	IHMR
kCantonese	haam4
kCihaiT	269.406
kCowles	928
kDaeJaweon	0406.190
kDefinition	together; all, completely; united; hexagram ䷞
kEACC	276250
kFanqie	胡讒
kFenn	344F
kFennIndex	178.04
kFourCornerCode	5320.0
kGB0	4744
kGB1	4744
kGSR	0671a
kHangul	함:0E
kHanYu	21404.020
kHanyuPinlu	xián(10)
kHanyuPinyin	21404.020:xián,jiǎn,jiān
kHKGlyph	0576
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0406.190
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	21404.020
kIRGKangXi	0187.190
kIRG_GSource	G0-4F4C
kIRG_HSource	HB1-AB77
kIRG_JSource	J0-5279
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-F2E0
kIRG_KSource	K0-7960
kIRG_TSource	T1-503B
kJapanese	カンゲンゴンみな
kKoreanEducationHanja	2007
kTGH	2013:1443
kJapaneseKun	MINA
kJapaneseOn	KAN GEN
kJis0	5089
kKangXi	0187.190
kKarlgren	148
kKorean	HAM
kMainlandTelegraph	0752
kMandarin	xián
kMatthews	2666
kMojiJoho	MJ008243
kMorohashi	03563
kPhonetic	419
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+4366+30.3.6 C+4366+62.4.5
kRSUnicode	30.6
kSBGY	229.26
kSimplifiedVariant	"咸" U+54B8 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	101.01 235.16
kSMSZD2003Readings	xián粵haam4
kTaiwanTelegraph	0752
kTang	*hæm
kTGHZ2013	398.040,398.050:xián
kTotalStrokes	9
kTraditionalVariant	"咸" U+54B8 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "鹹" U+9E79 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kXerox	254:364
kXHC1983	1248.010:xián