U+54EF "哯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+54EF "哯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that falls within the CJK Unified Ideographs block, representing a phonetic component in the Chinese writing system. Its meaning is not commonly used in modern standard Chinese, but it historically denotes the action of vomiting or spitting out, often associated with the act of bringing something up from the mouth or throat, akin to retching or expelling. The character is composed of the radical "口" (mouth) on the left, indicating a relation to oral actions, and the phonetic component "見" (jiàn, meaning "see" or "appear") on the right, which provides a clue to its pronunciation, typically read as "xiàn" or "yǎn" in Mandarin. As an archaic or rare character, it appears in classical texts and specialized dictionaries rather than everyday usage, reflecting the depth and historical layering of the CJK script.

General Properties

Code Point	U+54EF
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	哯
HTML Hex Encoding	哯
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x93 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding	0x54EF
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000054EF
C/C++/Java Escape	\u54ef

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	217032
kCNS1986	E-2F77
kCNS1992	3-2F77
kCangjie	RBUU
kCantonese	jin6
kDaeJaweon	0410.090
kEACC	217032
kFanqie	胡典
kGB3	2156
kHanYu	10629.010
kHanyuPinyin	10629.010:xiàn
kIRGDaeJaweon	0410.090
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10629.010
kIRGKangXi	0190.280
kIRG_GSource	G3-3558
kIRG_HSource	H-89F5
kIRG_JSource	J14-2379
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-39DA
kIRG_KSource	K2-2732
kIRG_TSource	T3-2F77
kIRG_VSource	V2-8A6D
kJapanese	ケン ゲン はく
kJIS0213	2,03,89
kJapaneseKun	HAKU
kJapaneseOn	KEN GEN
kJis1	2132
kKangXi	0190.280
kKorean	HYEN
kMandarin	xiàn
kMojiJoho	MJ008287
kMorohashi	03661
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+17361+30.3.7 C+17361+147.7.3
kRSUnicode	30.7
kSBGY	289.10
kSimplifiedVariant	"𠯟" U+20BDF CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes	10
kUnihanCore2020	H