U+552C "唬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
唬
U+552C "唬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily conveys the meaning of bluffing, intimidating, or frightening someone, often through verbal or deceptive means. In modern usage, it is commonly found in the word "嚇唬" (xiàhu), meaning to scare or threaten, and it carries a connotation of creating a false sense of danger to manipulate or unsettle others. Historically, the character's composition combines the radical "口" (mouth) with the phonetic component "虎" (tiger), suggesting the act of roaring like a tiger to instill fear. This compound structure reflects its semantic link to both sound and ferocity, making it a vivid term for expressions of trickery or hollow threats in written and spoken Chinese.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+552C |
| 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 | 唬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 唬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x94 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x552C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000552C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u552c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B0E4 |
| kCCCII | 213651 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5949 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5949 |
| kCangjie | RYPU |
| kCantonese | fu2 |
| kCihaiT | 276.611 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0413.230 |
| kDefinition | to intimidate; to scare |
| kEACC | 213651 |
| kFanqie | 呼訝 古伯 |
| kFenn | 203H |
| kFennIndex | 171.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6101.4 |
| kGB0 | 2703 |
| kGB1 | 2703 |
| kHanYu | 10640.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | hu(14) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10640.010:xiāo,guó,xià,hǔ,háo |
| kHKGlyph | 0607 |
| kIICore | AGTHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0413.230 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10640.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0193.120 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3B23 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B0E4 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-008341 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3A0B |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-274B |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5949 |
| kJapanese | ケ ゴウ キョウ キャク カ カク コウ |
| kTGH | 2013:2281 |
| kJapaneseOn | KA KE KOU GOU KYOU KAKU KYAKU |
| kKangXi | 0193.120 |
| kKorean | HO |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0801 |
| kMandarin | hǔ |
| kMatthews | 2163 |
| kMeyerWempe | 647d |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008341 |
| kMorohashi | 03756 |
| kPhonetic | 384 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.8 |
| kSBGY | 421.55 513.04 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+8AD5<kMatthews U+7307<kMeyerWempe U+8653<kMeyerWempe |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 108.11 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | hǔ粵fu2 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 141.130:hǔ |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kXerox | 271:371 |
| kXHC1983 | 0476.020:hǔ 1243.040:xià |