U+5558 "啘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5558 "啘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as a phonetic component in various historical or less common words, often related to sounds or vocal expressions. Its most prominent usage occurs in traditional medical contexts, where it is part of the term "啘呕" (wān ǒu), an archaic variant describing retching or vomiting, though it is not commonly used in modern standard Mandarin. The character itself can be decomposed into the radical "口" (mouth) on the left, indicating speech or sound, and "宛" (wǎn) on the right, which provides the phonetic hint for its pronunciation as "wān" or "yuàn" in some classical readings. Due to its rarity, "啘" is classified as a non-core character, primarily encountered in classical texts or specialized dictionaries rather than everyday writing.

General Properties

Code Point U+5558
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 啘
HTML Hex Encoding 啘
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x95 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5558
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005558
C/C++/Java Escape \u5558

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 236F32
kCNS1986 E-3457
kCNS1992 3-3457
kCangjie RJNU
kCantonese waa1
kCihaiT 281.110
kGB3 2262
kHanYu 10646.080
kHanyuPinyin 10646.080:yè,wā
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10646.080
kIRGKangXi 0196.050
kIRG_GSource G3-365E
kIRG_JSource J1-355D
kIRG_KSource K2-2766
kIRG_TSource T3-3457
kJapanese ワ エン セツ エツ
kJapaneseOn EN SETSU ETSU
kJis1 2161
kKangXi 0196.050
kMandarin
kMojiJoho MJ008398
kMorohashi 03826
kPhonetic 1622A*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+21280+30.3.8
kRSUnicode 30.8
kTotalStrokes 11