U+559A "喚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
喚
U+559A "喚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means to call out, summon, or shout, often used in contexts of awakening or invoking attention, as seen in words like 呼喚 (to call out) or 喚醒 (to awaken). Its etymology traces back to ancient script forms where it conveyed the idea of vocally prompting or rousing someone from inaction or sleep, and it remains common in both literary and everyday Chinese as well as in Japanese kanji with similar meanings. The character combines the mouth radical 口 indicating speech with a phonetic component, reflecting its connection to vocal expression and summoning.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+559A |
| 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 | 喚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 喚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x96 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x559A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000559A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u559a |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B3EA |
| kCCCII | 21366D |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5E50 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5E50 |
| kCangjie | RNBK |
| kCantonese | wun6 |
| kCihaiT | 283.602 |
| kCowles | 864 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0420.250 |
| kDefinition | call, summon; invite; be called |
| kEACC | 21366D |
| kFanqie | 火貫 |
| kFenn | 774C |
| kFennIndex | 204.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6703.4 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kHangul | 환:0N |
| kHanYu | 10658.061 |
| kHanyuPinlu | huàn(57) huan(35) |
| kHKGlyph | 0637 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0420.250 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10658.061 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0199.010 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-3B3D |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B3EA |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-342D |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-F6C6 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-7C30 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5E50 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4F5D |
| kJapanese | カン よぶ わめく |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | YOBU |
| kJapaneseOn | KAN |
| kJis0 | 2013 |
| kKangXi | 0199.010 |
| kKarlgren | 99 |
| kKorean | HWAN |
| kMandarin | huàn |
| kMatthews | 2249 |
| kMeyerWempe | 584 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008462 |
| kMorohashi | 03953 |
| kNelson | 0958 |
| kPhonetic | 1469 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1513+30.3.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.9 |
| kSBGY | 404.05 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "唤" U+5524 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 110.14 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | huàn粵wun6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0822 |
| kTang | huɑ̀n |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | hoán |
| kXerox | 247:125 |