U+54CF "哏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

哏

U+54CF "哏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily pronounced as "gén" in Mandarin, though it also has an alternative reading of "hěn" in some contexts. It is composed of the radical "口" (mouth, meaning related to speech or sound) and the phonetic component "艮," and its core meanings revolve around ideas of humor, jest, or amusing antics, often describing a comical person or amusing situation in colloquial Chinese. In modern usage, the character is famously associated with the term "捧哏," referring to the straight man or supporting role in the traditional Chinese comic dialogue performance Xiangsheng (crosstalk), who feeds lines to the lead comedian. Beyond comedy, it can also carry a slightly negative connotation of being sly or cunning in certain dialects, and it is occasionally used in transliterations for foreign names or terms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+54CF
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	哏
HTML Hex Encoding	哏
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x93 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding	0x54CF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000054CF
C/C++/Java Escape	\u54cf

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	CDFE
kCCCII	216F5C
kCNS1986	2-2940
kCNS1992	2-2940
kCangjie	RAV
kCantonese	gan1
kCihaiT	272.605
kDefinition	something funny
kEACC	216F5C
kFourCornerCode	6703.2
kGB0	6371
kGB1	6371
kHanYu	10623.090
kHanyuPinlu	gén(56)
kHanyuPinyin	10623.090:hěn,ǹ,gén
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10623.090
kIRGKangXi	0189.271
kIRG_GSource	G0-5F67
kIRG_HSource	HB2-CDFE
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-008267
kIRG_TSource	T2-2940
kIRG_VSource	V0-313C
kJapanese	コン
kTGH	2013:4228
kJapaneseOn	KON
kKangXi	0189.271
kMandarin	gén
kMojiJoho	MJ008267
kMorohashi	03629
kPhonetic	575
kRSUnicode	30.6
kSMSZD2003Index	102.06
kSMSZD2003Readings	gén粵gan1
kTGHZ2013	112.040:gén
kTotalStrokes	9
kUnihanCore2020	GHMT
kVietnamese	gắn
kXerox	271:370
kXHC1983	0377.010:gén