U+557A "啺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+557A "啺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character that historically functions as a variant form of the character "湯" (tāng), which primarily means "soup," "hot water," or "broth" in classical and modern Chinese contexts. Found in ancient texts and regional scripts, this ideograph is composed of the radical "口" (mouth) on the left and the phonetic component "易" (yì) on the right, suggesting a pronunciation linked to its variant. Its usage is extremely limited in contemporary writing, appearing mostly in specialized philological studies or historical documents where alternative character forms were recorded.

General Properties

Code Point	U+557A
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	啺
HTML Hex Encoding	啺
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x95 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding	0x557A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000557A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u557a

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	21713E
kCNS1986	E-3A3C
kCNS1992	3-3A3C
kCangjie	RAMH
kCantonese	tong4
kDaeJaweon	0418.190
kFanqie	徒郎
kGB5	2379
kHanYu	10653.100
kIRGDaeJaweon	0418.190
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10653.100
kIRGKangXi	0196.270
kIRG_GSource	G5-376F
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-008418
kIRG_TSource	T3-3A3C
kIRG_VSource	V1-4F51
kJapanese	トウ
kKangXi	0196.270
kMandarin	táng
kMojiJoho	MJ008418
kMorohashi	03884
kRSUnicode	30.9
kSBGY	178.13
kTotalStrokes	12
kVietnamese	dể