U+553E "唾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
唾
U+553E "唾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily means "saliva" or "spit." It is composed of the radical "口" (mouth) and the phonetic component "垂" (chuí), which together convey the action or substance associated with the mouth. In classical and modern usage, this character appears in words such as "唾液" (tuòyè) for "saliva" and "唾弃" (tuòqì) meaning "to spit in disdain" or "to despise," often used metaphorically to express strong rejection or contempt. Its depiction in the CJK Unified Ideographs block of Unicode ensures consistent representation across digital text systems for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+553E |
| 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 | 唾 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 唾 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x94 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x553E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000553E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u553e |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B3E8 |
| kCCCII | 213653 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5E4E |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5E4E |
| kCangjie | RHJM |
| kCantonese | to3 |
| kCihaiT | 277.505 |
| kCowles | 4348 4406 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0414.200 |
| kDefinition | spit, spit on; saliva |
| kEACC | 213653 |
| kFanqie | 湯卧 |
| kFenn | 26E |
| kFennIndex | 533.05 571.04 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6201.4 |
| kGB0 | 4557 |
| kGB1 | 4557 |
| kGSR | 0031m |
| kHangul | 타:0N |
| kHanYu | 10641.140 |
| kHanyuPinlu | tuò(14) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10641.140:tuò |
| kHKGlyph | 0635 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0414.200 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10641.140 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0194.140 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4D59 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B3E8 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-4243 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-EFE9 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7664 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5E4E |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4F45 |
| kJapanese | ダ タ つば |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:2287 |
| kJapaneseKun | TSUBA |
| kJapaneseOn | DA |
| kJis0 | 3435 |
| kKangXi | 0194.140 |
| kKorean | THA |
| kLau | 3100 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0790 |
| kMandarin | tuò |
| kMatthews | 6458 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3174 3182 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008363 |
| kMorohashi | 03785 |
| kNelson | 0938 |
| kPhonetic | 1255 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2851+30.3.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.8 30.9 |
| kSBGY | 420.26 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+6DB6<kMatthews |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 109.13 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | tuò粵to3,toe3 |
| kSpecializedSemanticVariant | U+6DB6<kFenn |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0790 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 376.110:tuò |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | thoá |
| kXerox | 257:163 |
| kXHC1983 | 1175.010:tuò |