U+5565 "啥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5565 "啥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as an interrogative pronoun meaning "what," commonly used in informal or dialectal speech, especially in northern Chinese varieties such as Mandarin and Jin. It appears as a simplified character, composed of the mouth radical (口) on the left and the phonetic component "舍" (she) on the right, indicating both sound and meaning. In everyday conversation, "啥" often replaces the more formal "什麼" (shenme) in questions like "這是啥" meaning "what is this," and it carries a colloquial, familiar tone. Its usage is widespread in online communication, regional dialogues, and literature aiming to convey a casual or local flavor, reflecting the character's role as a versatile and commonly understood element of modern Chinese writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5565
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	啥
HTML Hex Encoding	啥
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x95 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5565
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005565
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5565

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

kBigFive	D4A3
kCCCII	21707D
kCNS1986	2-3426
kCNS1992	2-3426
kCangjie	ROMR
kCantonese	saa2
kCihaiT	281.109
kDefinition	what?
kEACC	21707D
kFourCornerCode	6806.4
kGB0	4122
kGB1	4122
kHanYu	10643.060
kHanyuPinlu	shà(109)
kHanyuPinyin	10643.060:shà
kHKGlyph	0616
kIICore	AGTHM
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10643.060
kIRGKangXi	0196.261
kIRG_GSource	G0-4936
kIRG_HSource	HB2-D4A3
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-008413
kIRG_TSource	T2-3426
kJapanese	シャ
kTGH	2013:2290
kJapaneseKun	NANI NANZO
kJapaneseOn	SHA
kKangXi	0196.261
kMainlandTelegraph	0798
kMandarin	shá
kMojiJoho	MJ008413
kMorohashi	03881
kPhonetic	1152
kRSUnicode	30.8
kSMSZD2003Index	108.09
kSMSZD2003Readings	shà粵saa2
kTGHZ2013	322.180:shá
kTotalStrokes	11
kUnihanCore2020	GHMT
kXerox	301:273
kXHC1983	0994.070:shà