U+556D "啭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+556D "啭" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used in East Asian writing systems, where it conveys the meaning of "to turn" or "to change direction," and is often associated with the concept of birds singing or chirping in a melodic, twisting manner. In modern Chinese, it is commonly found in the word "转啭" (zhuǎn zhuàn), which describes a turning or rotating movement, and it appears in classical poetry and literary contexts to evoke the fluid, cyclical quality of sound or motion. This character is encoded in the CJK Unified Ideographs block of Unicode, representing a logogram that combines a radical related to the mouth or speech with a phonetic component, reflecting its origins in expressing vocal or kinetic transformation.

General Properties

Code Point U+556D
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 啭
HTML Hex Encoding 啭
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x95 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding 0x556D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000556D
C/C++/Java Escape \u556d

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 27375C
kCangjie RKQI
kCantonese zyun2
kDefinition sing, chirp, warble, twitter
kEACC 27375C
kFourCornerCode 6503
kGB0 6389
kHanYu 10639.040
kIICore CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10639.040
kIRGKangXi 0196.261
kIRG_GSource G0-5F79
kTGH 2013:4826
kKangXi 0196.261
kMainlandTelegraph 0921
kMandarin zhuàn
kRSUnicode 30.8
kSMSZD2003Index 109.06
kTGHZ2013 487.040:zhuàn
kTotalStrokes 11
kTraditionalVariant "囀" U+56C0 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 1520.020:zhuàn