U+555B "啛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+555B "啛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in ancient and literary contexts, primarily associated with the onomatopoeic sound of sighing or calling, often written as "啛啛" to represent a gentle or plaintive vocal expression in classical Chinese texts. It is composed of the radical "口" (mouth) on the left, indicating speech or sound, and the phonetic component "妻" (wife or woman), which provides a clue to its pronunciation, resembling the modern Mandarin reading "cui" with a rising tone. This character is rarely used in contemporary daily writing, but it appears in historical dictionaries and poetry as part of the rich tapestry of archaic Chinese vocabulary for expressive sounds.

General Properties

Code Point	U+555B
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	啛
HTML Hex Encoding	啛
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x95 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x555B
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000555B
C/C++/Java Escape	\u555b

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	21705B
kCangjie	RJLV
kCantonese	ceoi3
kCheungBauer	030/08;;cai1
kCheungBauerIndex	359.06
kDaeJaweon	0417.090
kDefinition	(Cant.) interjection (used by men)
kGB5	2463
kHanYu	10639.030
kHanyuPinyin	10639.030:cuì
kIRGDaeJaweon	0417.090
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10639.030
kIRGKangXi	0196.100
kIRG_GSource	G5-385F
kIRG_JSource	J1-355F
kIRG_KSource	K2-2769
kIRG_TSource	T4-306B
kIRG_VSource	V1-4F4B
kJapanese	サイ セ
kJapaneseKun	NAMERU
kJapaneseOn	SAI SE
kJis1	2163
kKangXi	0196.100
kMandarin	cuì
kMojiJoho	MJ008402
kMorohashi	03830
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+21282+30.3.8
kRSUnicode	30.8
kTotalStrokes	11
kVietnamese	xê