U+55A9 "喩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+55A9 "喩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Han character used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, primarily meaning "to compare," "to illustrate," or "to understand," often conveying the sense of an analogy or a parable. It is a variant form of the more common character "喻" (yù in Mandarin), with which it shares similar pronunciations and meanings, though "喩" is considered an alternate or simplified glyph in some historical and regional contexts. Structurally, it combines the mouth radical (口) on the left, indicating speech or expression, with a phonetic component on the right, which contributes to its pronunciation. This character appears in classical texts and modern usage in East Asian languages, particularly in words like "比喻" (bǐyù, meaning metaphor) and "喩え" (tatoe, meaning example or simile in Japanese).

General Properties

Code Point	U+55A9
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	喩
HTML Hex Encoding	喩
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x96 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0x55A9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000055A9
C/C++/Java Escape	\u55a9

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-3A42
kCNS1992	3-3A42
kCangjie	ROMV
kCantonese	jyu6
kCihaiT	281.203
kDefinition	metaphor
kFenn	619C
kFennIndex	646.09 647.01
kFourCornerCode	6802.1 6803.7
kHangul	유:0N
kHanYu	10657.081
kIICore	AJKP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10657.080
kIRGKangXi	0200.060
kIRG_GSource	GE-3366
kIRG_HSource	H-FB47
kIRG_JSource	J0-5348
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-FBB6
kIRG_KSource	K0-6A67
kIRG_TSource	T3-3A42
kJapanese	ユ ジュ さとす たとえる さとる
kJoyoKanji	2010
kKoreanName	2015
kJapaneseKun	SATOSU SATORU TATOERU
kJapaneseOn	YU
kJis0	5140
kKangXi	0200.060
kKorean	YU
kMandarin	yù
kMojiJoho	MJ008482 MJ008482:E0103 MJ008483:E0104
kMorohashi	03979 03979:E0103
kNelson	0947
kPhonetic	1611*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+4411+30.3.9 V+7984+30.3.9 V+13526+30.3.9
kRSUnicode	30.9
kTotalStrokes	12
kUnihanCore2020	HJKP