U+558C "喌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

喌

U+558C "喌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character that primarily functions as an onomatopoeic word, representing the sound of calling chickens or other fowl, akin to a clucking or chirping noise used by farmers to summon birds. Historically found in classical Chinese texts and dialectical usage, it is composed of the "口" (mouth) radical on the left and "卩" on the right, emphasizing its vocal nature. Due to its niche application, it is absent from modern standard vocabularies and rarely appears in contemporary writing or digital communication.

General Properties

Code Point	U+558C
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	喌
HTML Hex Encoding	喌
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x96 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding	0x558C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000558C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u558c

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

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kHanyuPinyin	10655.030:zhōu
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kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10655.030
kIRGKangXi	0198.020
kIRG_GSource	G5-387B
kIRG_HSource	HB2-D876
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-008442
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-3A2E
kIRG_KSource	K2-2773
kIRG_TSource	T2-3A5A
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kMojiJoho	MJ008442
kMorohashi	03918
kRSUnicode	30.9
kSBGY	206.20 456.26
kTaiwanTelegraph	8175
kTotalStrokes	12
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	310:315
kXHC1983	1504.020:zhōu