U+5554 "啔" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5554 "啔" CJK Unified Ideograph is a rare or variant Chinese character, primarily used in historical or classical texts, and is composed of the radical for "mouth" (口) combined with a phonetic component. It is often considered an archaic form of the more common character 啓 (qǐ), which carries meanings related to opening, beginning, or initiating something. While its usage in modern Chinese and Japanese is extremely limited, it retains significance in the study of historical calligraphy, ancient manuscripts, and the evolution of written East Asian languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5554
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	啔
HTML Hex Encoding	啔
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x95 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5554
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005554
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5554

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	39424F
kCNS1986	E-3461
kCNS1992	3-3461
kCangjie	XHIR
kCantonese	kai2
kCihaiT	281.107
kDaeJaweon	0417.020
kDefinition	to open; begin, commence; explain
kEACC	39424F
kGB5	2477
kHanYu	10646.110
kIRGDaeJaweon	0417.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10646.110
kIRGKangXi	0196.010
kIRG_GSource	G5-386D
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-008393
kIRG_TSource	T3-3461
kJapanese	ケイ ひらく
kJapaneseOn	KEI
kKangXi	0196.010
kMandarin	qǐ
kMojiJoho	MJ008393
kMorohashi	03822
kRSUnicode	30.8
kSMSZD2003Index	108.17
kTotalStrokes	11