U+554B "啋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+554B "啋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as an exclamation or interjection in vernacular contexts, often conveying surprise, disdain, or dismissal, similar to the English exclamation "bah!" or "pshaw!" It is less common in modern standard written Chinese but appears in historical novels and dialectal usage, particularly in expressions like "啋, 休得胡说" meaning "Bah, stop talking nonsense." The character is composed of the radical "口" (mouth) on the left, indicating speech or sound, and "菜" (vegetable or dish) on the right as a phonetic component, reflecting its role in representing a spoken utterance rather than a concrete object.

General Properties

Code Point	U+554B
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	啋
HTML Hex Encoding	啋
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x95 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x554B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000554B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u554b

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

kBigFive	D4AA
kCCCII	236F58
kCNS1986	2-342D
kCNS1992	2-342D
kCangjie	RBD
kCantonese	coi1
kCheungBauer	030/08;RBD;coi1
kCheungBauerIndex	359.08
kCowles	4794
kDaeJaweon	0416.060
kDefinition	(Cant.) an interjection used to berate someone
kFourCornerCode	6209.4
kGB5	2470
kHanYu	10643.140
kHanyuPinyin	10643.140:cǎi,cāi,xiāo
kIICore	CH
kIRGDaeJaweon	0416.060
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10643.140
kIRGKangXi	0195.050
kIRG_GSource	G5-3866
kIRG_HSource	HB2-D4AA
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-008382
kIRG_KSource	K2-275E
kIRG_TSource	T2-342D
kJapanese	キョウ ケキ キャク サイ
kJapaneseKun	KAMABISUSHII OOKII
kJapaneseOn	KYOU KEKI KYAKU SAI
kKangXi	0195.050
kKorean	KYO HYO
kMandarin	cǎi
kMeyerWempe	3438
kMojiJoho	MJ008382
kMorohashi	03809
kPhonetic	245*
kRSUnicode	30.8
kTotalStrokes	11
kUnihanCore2020	HMT