U+5508 "唈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
唈
U+5508 "唈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and largely obsolete Chinese character that historically carried meanings related to sighing, choking, or a sudden interruption of breath, often implying a suppressed or sorrowful emotional state. Found in classical Chinese texts rather than modern usage, it combines the mouth radical (口) with the phonetic component 邑 (yì), and its pronunciations in Middle Chinese and modern Mandarin readings have been reconstructed as something like "yì" or "è" in some contexts. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that this obscure but historically attested glyph can be digitally preserved and accessed for scholarly work, such as in the study of ancient poetry or historical linguistics.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5508 |
| 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 | 唈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 唈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x94 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5508 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005508 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5508 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | D0FA |
| kCCCII | 217034 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-2E3D |
| kCNS1992 | 2-2E3D |
| kCangjie | RRAU |
| kCantonese | jap1 |
| kCihaiT | 276.408 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0411.110 |
| kDefinition | to sob |
| kEACC | 217034 |
| kFanqie | 於汲 烏荅 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6601.7 |
| kGB3 | 2224 |
| kGSR | 0683i |
| kHanYu | 10630.080 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10630.080:yì |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0411.110 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10630.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0192.030 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-3638 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-D0FA |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-3548 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-39E1 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-273F |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-2E3D |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4F3D |
| kJapanese | ユウ オウ |
| kJapaneseKun | NAGEKU MUSEBU |
| kJapaneseOn | OU YUU |
| kJis1 | 2140 |
| kKangXi | 0192.030 |
| kKorean | UP AP |
| kMandarin | yì |
| kMatthews | 3038 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3835c |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008316 |
| kMorohashi | 03700 |
| kPhonetic | 1496 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+19234+30.3.7 C+19234+163.7.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.7 |
| kSBGY | 533.48 536.49 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0779 |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |
| kVietnamese | oạp |
| kXerox | 310:313 |
| kXHC1983 | 1369.100:yì |