U+55AB "喫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
喫
U+55AB "喫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to eat" or "to drink," often used in more formal or classical contexts compared to its common counterparts like 吃 or 喝. It appears in compounds such as 喫茶 (to drink tea) and 喫飯 (to eat a meal), and is notably retained in Japanese usage as 喫 (kitsu or the verb 喫う kū), where it similarly conveys consumption, as in 喫煙 (kitsuen, smoking). This character traces its origins to ancient Chinese scripts, where it depicted a person or mouth consuming something, and it remains a standard component in modern East Asian typography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+55AB |
| 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 | 喫 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 喫 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x96 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x55AB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000055AB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u55ab |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B3F0 |
| kCCCII | 21712B |
| kCNS1986 | 1-5E56 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-5E56 |
| kCangjie | RQHK |
| kCantonese | hek3 |
| kCihaiT | 284.401 |
| kCowles | 5085 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0422.030 |
| kDefinition | eat; drink; suffer, endure, bear |
| kEACC | 2D3547 |
| kFanqie | 苦擊 |
| kFennIndex | 71.12 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6703.4 |
| kGSR | 0279h |
| kHangul | 끽:0N |
| kHanYu | 10648.070 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10648.070:chī,kài |
| kIICore | ATJKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0422.030 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10648.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0200.190 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-3367 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B3F0 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-354A |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-D2F6 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5152 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-5E56 |
| kIRG_VSource | V0-3244 |
| kJapanese | キツ ケキ カイ くう のむ |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | KUU NOMU |
| kJapaneseOn | KITSU KEKI |
| kJis0 | 2142 |
| kKangXi | 0200.190 |
| kKarlgren | 335 |
| kKorean | KKIK |
| kLau | 1162 3305 |
| kMandarin | chī |
| kMatthews | 1047 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3798 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008486 MJ008486:E0103 MJ008485:E0104 MJ008487:E0105 MJ008488:E0106 |
| kMorohashi | 03987' 03987':E0103 03987:E0104 |
| kNelson | 0961 |
| kPhonetic | 564 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1636+30.3.9 V+13707+30.3.9 V+20092+30.3.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.9 |
| kSBGY | 523.01 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+5403<kLau,kMatthews |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 112.12 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0848 |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | khịt |
| kXerox | 322:102 |
| kXHC1983 | 0141.071:chī |