U+5543 "啃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
啃
U+5543 "啃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character composed of the mouth radical on the left and a phonetic component on the right, and it primarily means "to gnaw" or "to nibble," often used to describe the action of biting off small pieces of hard food, such as chewing on a bone or an apple core. In modern usage, it can also carry metaphorical meanings, such as "to study something diligently" or "to work through a difficult problem," similar to the English phrase "to chew on" a complex issue. The character appears frequently in everyday Chinese vocabulary, for example in words like "啃老" which refers to adult children who rely on their parents for financial support, literally "gnawing on the old."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5543 |
| 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 | 啃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 啃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x95 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5543 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005543 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5543 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B0D9 |
| kCCCII | 213650 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-593E |
| kCNS1992 | 1-593E |
| kCangjie | RYMB |
| kCantonese | hang2 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0415.040 |
| kDefinition | gnaw, chew, bite |
| kEACC | 213650 |
| kFennIndex | 247.08 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6102.7 |
| kGB0 | 3148 |
| kGB1 | 3148 |
| kHanYu | 10639.080 |
| kHanyuPinlu | kěn(17) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10639.080:kěn |
| kHKGlyph | 0604 |
| kIICore | AGTHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0415.040 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10639.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0194.270 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3F50 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B0D9 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-008369 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-39F6 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-2758 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-593E |
| kJapanese | シュウ |
| kTGH | 2013:2275 |
| kJapaneseOn | SHUU |
| kKangXi | 0194.270 |
| kKorean | SAP |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 8186 |
| kMandarin | kěn |
| kMatthews | 3335 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008369 |
| kMorohashi | 03798 |
| kPhonetic | 434 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.8 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+9F66<kFenn |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 108.06 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | kěn粵hang2 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 197.080:kěn |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kXerox | 262:117 |
| kXHC1983 | 0645.010:kěn |