U+550C "唌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+550C "唌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) used in Classical Chinese texts, where it generally refers to a phonetic component or indicates the concept of "to drool" or "saliva," often appearing in compound words or as a variant form in historical dictionaries. Its radical is 口 (mouth), and it contains 11 total strokes, with primary readings in Mandarin as xián or yán depending on context. In modern usage, this character is rare, primarily surfacing in literary or scholarly discussions of ancient scripts rather than in everyday communication.

General Properties

Code Point	U+550C
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	唌
HTML Hex Encoding	唌
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x94 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding	0x550C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000550C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u550c

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	D4A1
kCCCII	217121
kCNS1986	2-3424
kCNS1992	2-3424
kCangjie	RNKM
kCantonese	jin4
kCihaiT	276.406
kDaeJaweon	0411.150
kFanqie	徒干
kFourCornerCode	6203.1
kGB3	2211
kHanYu	10631.030
kHanyuPinyin	10631.030:xián,yán,dàn
kIRGDaeJaweon	0411.150
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10631.030
kIRGKangXi	0192.070
kIRG_GSource	G3-362B
kIRG_HSource	HB2-D4A1
kIRG_JSource	J1-354A
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-39DF
kIRG_KSource	K2-2742
kIRG_TSource	T2-3424
kJapanese	セン ゼン タン ダン エン
kJapaneseKun	NAGEKU
kJapaneseOn	SEN ZEN TAN DAN EN
kJis1	2142
kKangXi	0192.070
kKorean	YEN TAN
kMandarin	xián
kMojiJoho	MJ008320 MJ008320:E0101 MJ008321:E0102
kMorohashi	03704 03704:E0101
kPhonetic	1578*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+21273+30.3.7
kRSUnicode	30.7
kSBGY	122.28
kTotalStrokes	9
kUnihanCore2020	HMT