U+559F "喟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
喟
U+559F "喟" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily meaning "to sigh" or "to lament," often used in classical and literary contexts to express a deep, emotional exhalation of sorrow or regret. It appears in historical texts such as the Analects of Confucius, where it conveys a sense of profound reflection or resignation. The character belongs to the Kangxi radical 30 (口, meaning "mouth"), reflecting its oral nature of vocalized emotion, and has traditional and simplified forms that are identical in both scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+559F |
| 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 | 喟 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 喟 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x96 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x559F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000559F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u559f |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B3E7 |
| kCCCII | 21366A |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5E4D |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5E4D |
| kCangjie | RWB |
| kCantonese | wai2 |
| kCihaiT | 284.302 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0421.060 |
| kDefinition | heave sigh, sigh |
| kEACC | 21366A |
| kFanqie | 丘愧 苦怪 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6602.7 |
| kGB0 | 6416 |
| kGB1 | 6416 |
| kGSR | 0523g |
| kHangul | 위:1N |
| kHanYu | 10654.030 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10654.030:kuì,huài |
| kHKGlyph | 0633 |
| kIICore | AGTH |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0421.060 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10654.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0199.140 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-6030 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B3E7 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5340 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3A50 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6959 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5E4D |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4F60 |
| kJapanese | キ カイ ケ なげく |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:5153 |
| kJapaneseKun | TAMEIKI |
| kJapaneseOn | KI KUWAI KE |
| kJis0 | 5132 |
| kKangXi | 0199.140 |
| kKorean | WI KOY |
| kLau | 3191 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0846 |
| kMandarin | kuì |
| kMatthews | 3646 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3723e |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008471 |
| kMorohashi | 03963 |
| kNelson | 0948 |
| kPhonetic | 1439 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4403+30.3.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.9 |
| kSBGY | 352.20 385.46 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 111.03 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | kuì粵wai2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0846 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 203.200:kuì |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJMT |
| kVietnamese | vị |
| kXerox | 273:242 |
| kXHC1983 | 0663.180:kuì |