U+5525 "唥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5525 "唥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that is used in Cantonese, where it is pronounced "laang4" or "lang3" and primarily functions as a slang term meaning "cool" or "cold" in a social or fashion sense, often in youth slang. It belongs to the ideographic script block and is composed of the radical for "mouth" (口) on the left, with the phonetic component "冷" (meaning cold or cool) on the right. This character has seen modern usage in Hong Kong internet and texting culture to describe something as excellent, awesome, or stylish.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5525
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	唥
HTML Hex Encoding	唥
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x94 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5525
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005525
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5525

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	RIMI
kCantonese	laang6
kCheungBauer	030/07;RIMI;laang1,laang4,laang6
kCheungBauerIndex	357.01 357.02 357.03 357.04 357.05
kCowles	2188 2232 2234
kDefinition	(Cant.) a bundle; onomatopoetic; round, circular; guys (slang)
kHanYu	10633.011
kIICore	CH
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10633.011
kIRGKangXi	0193.051
kIRG_GSource	GH-1219
kIRG_HSource	H-8A41
kKangXi	0193.051
kLau	1780
kMandarin	lang
kMeyerWempe	1487
kPseudoGB1	9207
kRSUnicode	30.7
kTotalStrokes	10
kUnihanCore2020	H