U+550F "唏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
唏
U+550F "唏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily conveys a sense of sighing, lamenting, or expressing sorrow, and is often used in classical and modern Chinese literature to depict emotional exhalations of regret or pity. Its pronunciation in Mandarin is "xī", and it appears in compound phrases such as "唏噓" (xīxū) which means to sigh deeply or to sob with a choked voice, frequently employed in narrative contexts to describe characters' melancholy reactions. This character belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block and carries the radical 口 (mouth), reflecting its phonetic and semantic connection to sounds or utterances of emotional distress.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+550F |
| 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 | 唏 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 唏 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x94 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x550F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000550F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u550f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | AE44 |
| kCCCII | 217046 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5466 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5466 |
| kCangjie | RKKB |
| kCantonese | hei1 |
| kCihaiT | 276.407 |
| kCowles | 1018 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0411.180 |
| kDefinition | weep or sob; grieve |
| kEACC | 217046 |
| kFanqie | 虚豈 許旣 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6402.7 |
| kGB0 | 6381 |
| kGB1 | 6381 |
| kHangul | 희:1N |
| kHanYu | 10631.160 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10631.160:xī,xiè |
| kIICore | AGTM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0411.180 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10631.160 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0192.100 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5F71 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-AE44 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5329 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-39DC |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-7536 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5466 |
| kIRG_VSource | V0-315B |
| kJapanese | キ ケ カイ なく なげく |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:4517 |
| kJapaneseKun | NAGEKU |
| kJapaneseOn | KI |
| kJis0 | 5109 |
| kKangXi | 0192.100 |
| kKorean | HUY |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0785 |
| kMandarin | xī |
| kMatthews | 2417 |
| kMeyerWempe | 687e |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008324 |
| kMorohashi | 03707 |
| kPhonetic | 451 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4380+30.3.7 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.7 |
| kSBGY | 255.48 361.21 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 104.11 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | xī粵hei1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0785 |
| kTang | *xiə̌i xiə̀i |
| kTGHZ2013 | 391.160:xī |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJMT |
| kVietnamese | hơi |
| kXerox | 301:174 |
| kXHC1983 | 1230.090:xī |