U+5569 "啩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5569 "啩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in the written Chinese language, primarily in Cantonese contexts. It is a radical-based ideograph that conveys the meaning of "to worry" or "to be anxious about something," often functioning as a verb in colloquial expressions. The character combines a mouth radical on the left with a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its pronunciation as "gwaa" in Cantonese. In modern usage, it appears in phrases related to concern or tension, such as in the term "挂住" (to miss or worry about someone) when written in traditional script.

General Properties

Code Point U+5569
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 啩
HTML Hex Encoding 啩
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x95 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5569
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005569
C/C++/Java Escape \u5569

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

kCangjie RGGY
kCantonese gwaa3
kCheungBauer 030/08;RGGY;gwaa3
kCheungBauerIndex 362.05
kCowles 2041
kDefinition (Cant.) particle implying probability
kHanYu 10636.021
kIICore BHM
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10636.021
kIRGKangXi 0196.261
kIRG_GSource GH-1221
kIRG_HSource H-9E4E
kIRG_VSource V1-4F4F
kKangXi 0196.261
kLau 1014
kMandarin guà
kMeyerWempe 1350
kPseudoGB1 9210
kRSUnicode 30.8
kTotalStrokes 11
kUnihanCore2020 HM
kVietnamese quấy