U+5520 "唠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
唠
U+5520 "唠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese, primarily functioning as a verb meaning "to chatter" or "to talk endlessly." It is commonly found in colloquial expressions like "唠嗑" (lào kē), which refers to casual chatting or gossiping. The character consists of the "口" (mouth) radical on the left, indicating speech or vocalization, and the phonetic component "劳" (láo) on the right, which contributes both to the sound and the notion of laborious or prolonged effort. As part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block, it represents a standardized encoding for digital text across East Asian scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5520 |
| 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 | 唠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 唠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x94 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5520 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005520 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5520 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 273732 |
| kCangjie | RTBS |
| kCantonese | lou4 |
| kDefinition | chat, jaw, gossip, talk |
| kEACC | 273732 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6402 |
| kGB0 | 6375 |
| kHanYu | 10626.010 |
| kIICore | CG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10626.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0193.051 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5F6B |
| kIRG_TSource | TF-2E42 |
| kTGH | 2013:1891 |
| kKangXi | 0193.051 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 8167 |
| kMandarin | láo |
| kPhonetic | 821* |
| kRSUnicode | 30.7 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 105.15 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 210.180:láo 211.100:lào |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "嘮" U+562E CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0678.020:láo 0682.080:lào |