U+54B9 "咹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+54B9 "咹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in several East Asian languages, primarily in classical and literary contexts rather than modern everyday conversation. In Mandarin Chinese, it is a rare character that can be pronounced as "è" or "àn" and historically carries meanings related to eating or swallowing, often associated with sounds made during eating or as a variant form of other characters like 餲. It also appears in Japanese and Korean as a borrowed character, though its usage remains similarly obscure, found mostly in ancient texts or specialized dictionaries rather than common vocabulary.

General Properties

Code Point	U+54B9
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	咹
HTML Hex Encoding	咹
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x92 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding	0x54B9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000054B9
C/C++/Java Escape	\u54b9

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	216F54
kCNS1986	E-2B51
kCNS1992	3-2B51
kCangjie	RJV
kCantonese	hon1
kCheungBauer	030/06;RJV;hon1
kCheungBauerIndex	353.07
kDaeJaweon	0406.200
kDefinition	(Cant.) sound of an automobile horn
kFanqie	烏葛
kGB3	2213
kHanYu	10623.030
kHanyuPinyin	10623.030:è,àn,ń
kIICore	CH
kIRGDaeJaweon	0406.200
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10623.030
kIRGKangXi	0187.200
kIRG_GSource	G3-362D
kIRG_HSource	H-89F3
kIRG_JSource	J1-3535
kIRG_KSource	K2-2722
kIRG_TSource	T3-2B51
kIRG_VSource	V0-3137
kJapanese	アツ アチ アン
kJapaneseKun	DOMORU SASAYAKU YAMU
kJapaneseOn	ATSU ACHI AN
kJis1	2121
kKangXi	0187.200
kLau	1216
kMandarin	è
kMojiJoho	MJ008244
kMorohashi	03564
kPhonetic	995*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+14384+30.3.6
kRSUnicode	30.6
kSBGY	483.46
kTotalStrokes	9
kUnihanCore2020	H
kVietnamese	ăn