U+550A "唊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
唊
U+550A "唊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used in classical texts and some regional dialects, though it is not common in modern standard Mandarin. It carries multiple meanings, often relating to speaking or eating, such as "to gossip" or "to bite" depending on context, with its pronunciation varying across languages like Mandarin (jiā or qiè) and Cantonese (gaap3). This character is part of the CJK unified ideographs block, which incorporates characters from Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, and its structure typically includes the mouth radical (口) combined with a phonetic component, reflecting its semantic ties to verbal or oral actions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+550A |
| 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 | 唊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 唊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x94 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x550A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000550A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u550a |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | D140 |
| kCCCII | 21702B |
| kCNS1986 | 2-2E42 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-2E42 |
| kCangjie | RKOO |
| kCantonese | gaap3 |
| kCheungBauer | 030/07;RKOO;gaap6 |
| kCheungBauerIndex | 356.04 |
| kCowles | 1486 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0411.130 |
| kDefinition | (Cant.) to hold fast, press |
| kEACC | 21702B |
| kFanqie | 古協 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6403.8 |
| kGB3 | 2201 |
| kHanYu | 10627.110 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10627.110:jiá,qiǎn |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0411.130 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10627.110 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0192.050 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-3621 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-D140 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-008318 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-39C3 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-2740 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-2E42 |
| kJapanese | キョウ コウ ケン |
| kJapaneseOn | KYOU KOU KEN |
| kKangXi | 0192.050 |
| kKorean | KYEP |
| kMandarin | jiá |
| kMeyerWempe | 986a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008318 |
| kMorohashi | 03702 |
| kPhonetic | 550* |
| kRSUnicode | 30.7 |
| kSBGY | 541.29 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+7864<kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "𰇕" U+301D5 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |