U+5516 "唖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
唖
U+5516 "唖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that is also used in Japanese kanji, where it is commonly associated with the meaning of "dumb" or "mute," often referring to an inability to speak, and it appears as a variant or simplified form of the more standard character 啞, which carries the same meaning. In Japanese, it is frequently employed in compound words like 唖然 (azen), meaning "speechless" or "astonished," and it is classified under the radical for "mouth" (口), reflecting its connection to verbal expression. While less common in modern everyday Chinese usage, it retains its historical significance as a logograph representing silence or voicelessness across East Asian writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5516 |
| 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 | 唖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 唖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x94 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5516 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005516 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5516 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 2D3649 |
| kCangjie | XRMLM |
| kCantonese | aa2 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0413.130 |
| kDefinition | dumb, mute; become hoarse |
| kFourCornerCode | 6101.7 |
| kHanYu | 10626.100 |
| kIICore | AJ |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0413.130 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10626.100 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0193.051 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-3354 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3022 |
| kIRG_TSource | T4-2C2E |
| kJapanese | ア アク おし |
| kJapaneseKun | OSHI |
| kJapaneseOn | A |
| kJis0 | 1602 |
| kKangXi | 0193.051 |
| kKorean | A |
| kMandarin | yǎ |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008332 |
| kMorohashi | 03743 |
| kNelson | 0939 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1126+30.3.7 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.7 |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | J |