U+554C "啌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+554C "啌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and ancient Chinese character used in classical texts, where its meaning is linked to the concept of a throat or an empty space, often interpreted as a cavity or a hollow sound. This ideograph is composed of the radical "口" (mouth) on the left side and "空" (empty, hollow, sky) on the right side, which together suggest a vocal or oral cavity. Historically, it appears in traditional Chinese literature and dictionaries, such as the Kangxi Dictionary, where it is defined as indicating a noisy or clattering sound from the throat, though its usage is extremely limited in modern Chinese and it is not a common term in contemporary writing or speech.

General Properties

Code Point U+554C
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 啌
HTML Hex Encoding 啌
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x95 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0x554C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000554C
C/C++/Java Escape \u554c

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 21704E
kCNS1986 E-3458
kCNS1992 3-3458
kCangjie RJCM
kCantonese hong1
kDaeJaweon 0416.070
kDefinition animal disease
kEACC 21704E
kFanqie 許江
kFenn 10H
kFennIndex 46.09
kFourCornerCode 6301.1
kGB3 2261
kHanYu 10646.070
kHanyuPinyin 10646.070:xiāng,qiāng
kIRGDaeJaweon 0416.070
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10646.070
kIRGKangXi 0195.060
kIRG_GSource G3-365D
kIRG_JSource J0-5333
kIRG_KPSource KP1-3A08
kIRG_KSource K2-275F
kIRG_TSource T3-3458
kIRG_VSource V1-4F48
kJapanese コウ
kJapaneseKun SHIKARU
kJapaneseOn KOU
kJis0 5119
kKangXi 0195.060
kMandarin xiāng
kMatthews 663
kMojiJoho MJ008383 MJ008383:E0101 MJ008384:E0102
kMorohashi 03810 03810:E0101
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+4390+30.3.8
kRSUnicode 30.8
kSBGY 040.02
kTotalStrokes 11
kUnihanCore2020 J
kVietnamese hòng
kXerox 317:262