U+55A1 "喡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+55A1 "喡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) unified ideographs block in the Unicode standard, representing a logogram used in East Asian writing systems. Its pronunciation and meaning are less common in modern usage, but it is historically associated with the concept of crying or weeping, often conveying a sense of sorrow or lamentation. In classical Chinese texts, this character appears in literary contexts to describe vocal expressions of grief, though it is rarely encountered in contemporary everyday language. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text can accurately represent this traditional glyph for scholarly, historical, or typographic purposes.

General Properties

Code Point U+55A1
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 喡
HTML Hex Encoding 喡
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x96 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding 0x55A1
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000055A1
C/C++/Java Escape \u55a1

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

kBigFive D87A
kCCCII 217131
kCNS1986 2-3A5E
kCNS1992 2-3A5E
kCangjie RDMQ
kCantonese wai4
kDaeJaweon 0421.090
kFourCornerCode 6405.6
kGB3 2151
kHanYu 10663.030
kHanyuPinyin 10663.030:wéi,wèi
kIRGDaeJaweon 0421.090
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10663.030
kIRGKangXi 0199.190
kIRG_GSource G3-3553
kIRG_HSource HB2-D87A
kIRG_JSource JMJ-008473
kIRG_KSource K2-277B
kIRG_TSource T2-3A5E
kIRG_VSource V1-4F61
kJapanese
kJapaneseOn I
kKangXi 0199.190
kMandarin wéi
kMojiJoho MJ008473
kMorohashi 03967
kRSUnicode 30.9
kSimplifiedVariant "𮰔" U+2EC14 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes 12
kUnihanCore2020 HMT
kVietnamese vầy