U+551E "唞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+551E "唞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that is primarily used in Cantonese and other southern Chinese dialects, where it carries the meaning of "to breathe" or "to take a rest." It is often found in informal or colloquial contexts, such as in the phrase "唞氣" meaning "to take a breather." This character belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) Unified Ideographs block, which encompasses traditional and simplified characters shared across these languages, though "唞" itself is not commonly used in standard Mandarin. Its usage highlights the diversity within written Chinese, reflecting regional linguistic variations and everyday speech patterns.

General Properties

Code Point U+551E
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 唞
HTML Hex Encoding 唞
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x94 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding 0x551E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000551E
C/C++/Java Escape \u551e

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

kCangjie RQYJ
kCantonese tau2
kCheungBauer 030/07;RQYJ;tau2
kCheungBauerIndex 358.03
kCowles 4336
kDefinition (Cant.) to gasp; to breathe; to rest
kHanYu 10625.051
kIICore CH
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10625.051
kIRGKangXi 0193.051
kIRG_GSource GH-1218
kIRG_HSource H-9E57
kKangXi 0193.051
kLau 3044
kMandarin dǒu
kMeyerWempe 3037
kPseudoGB1 9208
kRSUnicode 30.7
kTotalStrokes 10
kUnihanCore2020 H