U+553A "唺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+553A "唺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character that appears primarily in classical or historical texts, with its pronunciation and meaning varying depending on context. Most commonly, it is known as a variant form of the character "呫," which relates to the action of sipping or tasting, and it can also imply whispering or murmuring softly. This character is not widely used in modern standard Chinese, but it exists within the broader CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideograph block, serving as a linguistic artifact for specialized scholarly or literary references.

General Properties

Code Point	U+553A
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	唺
HTML Hex Encoding	唺
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x94 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding	0x553A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000553A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u553a

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

kCCCII	236F4B
kCNS1986	E-3466
kCNS1992	3-3466
kCangjie	RTBC
kCantonese	tin2
kDaeJaweon	0414.130
kGB3	2250
kHanYu	10640.070
kHanyuPinyin	10640.070:tiǎn
kIRGDaeJaweon	0414.130
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10640.070
kIRGKangXi	0194.060
kIRG_GSource	G3-3652
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-008359
kIRG_TSource	T3-3466
kJapanese	テン ケン
kKangXi	0194.060
kMandarin	tiǎn
kMojiJoho	MJ008359
kMorohashi	03777
kRSUnicode	30.8
kTotalStrokes	11