U+54EC "哬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+54EC "哬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in the Classical Chinese and Cantonese writing systems, though it is rare in modern Standard Mandarin. Its meaning is context dependent often associated with exclamatory or interrogative sounds similar to "ah" or "eh" in spoken language. The character is composed of the mouth radical (口) on the left, suggesting speech or sound, and a phonetic component on the right that hints at its pronunciation. In historical or regional texts, it may appear in transliterations or dialectal expressions.

General Properties

Code Point U+54EC
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 哬
HTML Hex Encoding 哬
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x93 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding 0x54EC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000054EC
C/C++/Java Escape \u54ec

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 236F27
kCangjie XXROM
kCantonese ho4
kDaeJaweon 0410.050
kGB5 2450
kHanYu 10631.040
kHanyuPinyin 10631.040:hé
kIRGDaeJaweon 0410.050
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10631.040
kIRGKangXi 0190.240
kIRG_GSource G5-3852
kIRG_JSource J14-2378
kIRG_KSource K2-2731
kIRG_TSource T4-2C26
kIRG_VSource V0-3157
kJapanese
kJIS0213 2,03,88
kJapaneseKun SHIKARU SEMERU
kJapaneseOn KA
kJis1 2131
kKangXi 0190.240
kKorean HA
kMandarin
kMojiJoho MJ008284
kMorohashi 03657
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+17360+30.3.7
kRSUnicode 30.7
kTotalStrokes 10
kVietnamese