U+5564 "啤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
啤
U+5564 "啤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character composed of the radical for "mouth" and the phonetic component "卑," primarily used to represent the word "beer" when combined with the character "酒" in the term "啤酒." It is a modern invention, created in the late 19th or early 20th century as a phonetic loan to render the English word "beer," and while it does not appear in classical Chinese texts, it has become a standard and widely recognized character in contemporary Chinese writing, appearing in dictionaries and everyday usage across China, Taiwan, and other Chinese-speaking regions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5564 |
| 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 | 啤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 啤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x95 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5564 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005564 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5564 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B0E0 |
| kCCCII | 213658 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5945 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5945 |
| kCangjie | RHHJ |
| kCantonese | be1 |
| kCihaiT | 281.105 |
| kCowles | 3242 3461 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0418.140 |
| kDefinition | beer |
| kEACC | 213658 |
| kFenn | 807G |
| kFennIndex | 403.08 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6604.0 |
| kGB0 | 3801 |
| kGB1 | 3801 |
| kHanYu | 10642.090 |
| kHanyuPinlu | pí(12) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10642.090:pí |
| kHKGlyph | 0611 |
| kIICore | AGTHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0418.140 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10642.090 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0196.261 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4621 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B0E0 |
| kIRG_JSource | J14-2429 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-276D |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5945 |
| kJapanese | ヒ |
| kTGH | 2013:2289 |
| kJIS0213 | 2,04,09 |
| kJapaneseOn | HI |
| kJis1 | 2167 |
| kKangXi | 0196.261 |
| kLau | 75 89 90 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0802 |
| kMandarin | pí |
| kMatthews | 5161 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2301 2303 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008412 |
| kMorohashi | 03878 |
| kPhonetic | 1029 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+17372+30.3.8 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.8 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 107.06 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | pí粵be1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 9736 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 281.060:pí |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kXerox | 266:255 |
| kXHC1983 | 0867.120:pí |