U+5596 "喖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5596 "喖" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is an obscure and rarely used Chinese character that primarily appears in historical or classical texts. It is composed of the radical "口" (mouth) on the left and the phonetic component "枯" (withering or dried up) on the right, suggesting a possible meaning related to sound, utterance, or a specific vocal action, though its exact definition is not well documented in modern Chinese dictionaries. This character belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which encompasses characters from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese languages, and it may be encountered in specialized literary or cultural contexts rather than everyday usage.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5596
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	喖
HTML Hex Encoding	喖
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x96 0x96
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5596
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005596
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5596

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	217135
kCNS1986	E-3A2E
kCNS1992	3-3A2E
kCangjie	RDJR
kCantonese	wu4
kDaeJaweon	0420.160
kGB5	2482
kHanYu	10651.030
kHanyuPinyin	10651.030:hú
kIRGDaeJaweon	0420.160
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10651.030
kIRGKangXi	0198.280
kIRG_GSource	G5-3872
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-008455
kIRG_TSource	T3-3A2E
kJapanese	コ ゴ
kKangXi	0198.280
kMandarin	hú
kMojiJoho	MJ008455
kMorohashi	03944
kRSUnicode	30.9
kTotalStrokes	12