U+559E "喞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
喞
U+559E "喞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used in East Asian writing systems, including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Its meaning relates to the action of chewing or the sound of chewing, and it is often associated with the concept of masticating or grinding with the teeth, as seen in its composition of the "mouth" radical combined with a phonetic component. In modern usage, it appears in specific literary or technical contexts, such as in descriptions of eating or in compound words, though it is less common than more basic characters. The character also has historical roots in classical texts, where it could denote a clicking or chirping sound in addition to chewing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+559E |
| 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 | 喞 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 喞 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x96 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x559E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000559E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u559e |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCNS1986 | E-3A40 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-3A40 |
| kCangjie | RHPL |
| kCantonese | zik1 |
| kCihaiT | 284.301 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0421.040 |
| kDefinition | chirping of insects; pump |
| kEACC | 39365E |
| kFourCornerCode | 6702.0 |
| kHangul | 즉:1N |
| kHanYu | 10657.031 |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0421.040 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10657.031 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0199.120 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-3365 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5344 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3A30 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6D72 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-3A40 |
| kJapanese | ショク ソク シツ シチ かこつ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | KAKOTSU |
| kJapaneseOn | SOKU SHOKU |
| kJis0 | 5136 |
| kKangXi | 0199.120 |
| kKorean | CUL CIK |
| kMandarin | jī |
| kMatthews | 496 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008469 MJ008469:E0101 MJ008470:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 03961:E0102 |
| kNelson | 0950 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4407+30.3.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.9 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 112.09 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0825 |
| kTang | tziək |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | J |