U+559E "喞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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

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
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