U+555E "啞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+555E "啞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that traditionally means "mute" or "dumb," referring to the inability to speak, and it can also denote a hoarse or raspy voice in extended usage. Its composition includes the mouth radical (口) on the left, indicating speech or sound, and a phonetic component on the right that contributes to its pronunciation (typically read as yǎ in Mandarin). In classical texts, it sometimes appears in contexts describing speechlessness due to emotion or illness, and it is also used in compound words like 啞巴 (yǎba, meaning a mute person) or 啞劇 (yǎjù, meaning pantomime). This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block and is encoded for use across East Asian writing systems, carrying distinct but related meanings in all three languages.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
啞 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
啞 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE5 0x95 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x555E |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000555E |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u555e |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive |
B0D7 |
| kCCCII |
213649 |
| kCNS1986 |
1-593C |
| kCNS1992 |
1-593C |
| kCangjie |
RMLM |
| kCantonese |
aa2 |
| kCihaiT |
280.405 |
| kCowles |
6 10 40 2975 |
| kDaeJaweon |
0417.240 |
| kDefinition |
dumb, mute; become hoarse |
| kEACC |
213649 |
| kFanqie |
烏下 衣嫁 烏格 於革 |
| kFenn |
247E |
| kFennIndex |
612.08 |
| kFourCornerCode |
6101.7 |
| kGB1 |
4938 |
| kGradeLevel |
3 |
| kGSR |
0805f |
| kHangul |
아:0N |
| kHanYu |
10636.070 |
| kHanyuPinlu |
yǎ(14) |
| kHanyuPinyin |
10636.070:è,yā,yǎ |
| kHKGlyph |
0601 |
| kIICore |
ATHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon |
0417.240 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian |
10636.070 |
| kIRGKangXi |
0196.150 |
| kIRG_GSource |
G1-5146 |
| kIRG_HSource |
HB1-B0D7 |
| kIRG_JSource |
J13-2F28 |
| kIRG_KPSource |
KP0-F7A2 |
| kIRG_KSource |
K0-642F |
| kIRG_TSource |
T1-593C |
| kIRG_VSource |
V2-8A74 |
| kJapanese |
ア アク ヤク おし |
| kKoreanName |
2015 |
| kJIS0213 |
1,15,08 |
| kJapaneseKun |
OSHI |
| kJapaneseOn |
A |
| kJis1 |
2164 |
| kKangXi |
0196.150 |
| kKarlgren |
209 |
| kKorean |
A |
| kLau |
4 |
| kMandarin |
yǎ |
| kMatthews |
7226 |
| kMeyerWempe |
5 1997e |
| kMojiJoho |
MJ008406 |
| kMorohashi |
03835 |
| kNelson |
0939 |
| kPhonetic |
2 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 |
C+7633+30.3.8 |
| kRSUnicode |
30.8 |
| kSBGY |
308.18 421.49 511.40 515.50 |
| kSemanticVariant |
U+7602<kFenn |
| kSimplifiedVariant |
"哑" U+54D1 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index |
107.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings |
yǎ粵aa2 yā粵aa1 yǎ粵ak1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph |
0800 |
| kTang |
qà |
| kTotalStrokes |
11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 |
HJKMPT |
| kXerox |
255:041 |
| kXHC1983 |
1317.041:yā 1320.081:yǎ |