U+5528 "唨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5528 "唨" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (CJK ideograph) belonging to the set of Han characters used in writing Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. It is composed of the radical 口 (mouth, speech) and a phonetic component, and while its usage is rare and archaic in modern standard Mandarin, historical dictionaries suggest it may have represented a sound or a specific type of utterance, possibly related to grunting or chewing in classical texts. Its precise meaning and frequency are obscure, as it does not appear in common vocabulary lists, and it remains largely a specialized character for philological or historical character set study.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5528
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	唨
HTML Hex Encoding	唨
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x94 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5528
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005528
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5528

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

kCNS1986	E-6721
kCNS1992	3-6721
kCangjie	RNLM
kCantonese	zo2
kCheungBauer	030/08;RNLM;zo2
kCheungBauerIndex	365.07
kCowles	297
kDefinition	(Cant.) particle indicating past tense
kHanYu	10634.181
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10634.181
kIRGKangXi	0196.261
kIRG_GSource	GE-3357
kIRG_HSource	H-89F8
kIRG_TSource	T3-6721
kKangXi	0196.261
kLau	1539
kMandarin	zǔ
kMeyerWempe	323
kRSUnicode	30.8
kTotalStrokes	10
kUnihanCore2020	H
kXerox	324:305