U+5503 "唃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5503 "唃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in classical and literary contexts, primarily associated with the pronunciation and meaning related to the sound of an elephant or a large beast. It appears in ancient dictionaries, such as the Shuowen Jiezi, where it is defined as "elephant sound" or a vocalization made by elephants, and it has also been employed in historical texts to denote a type of clamor or noise. This character is exceedingly rare in modern Chinese usage, found mostly in specialized scholarly references or historical linguistic studies rather than everyday language.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5503
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	唃
HTML Hex Encoding	唃
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x94 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5503
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005503
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5503

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	D146
kCCCII	217048
kCNS1986	2-2E48
kCNS1992	2-2E48
kCangjie	RNBG
kCantonese	guk1
kDaeJaweon	0411.040
kFourCornerCode	6702.7
kGB3	2232
kHanYu	10632.100
kIRGDaeJaweon	0411.040
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10632.100
kIRGKangXi	0191.280
kIRG_GSource	G3-3640
kIRG_HSource	HB2-D146
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-008310
kIRG_KSource	K2-273D
kIRG_TSource	T2-2E48
kJapanese	コク
kJapaneseOn	KOKU
kKangXi	0191.280
kMandarin	gǔ
kMojiJoho	MJ008310
kMorohashi	03693
kRSUnicode	30.7
kTotalStrokes	10
kUnihanCore2020	HMT