U+55B0 "喰" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
喰
U+55B0 "喰" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to eat" in a colloquial or vernacular sense, often used in compound words. It is composed of the radical "口" meaning mouth on the left and "食" meaning food on the right, visually representing the act of eating. While it is not a standard character in modern Simplified Chinese, it appears in Traditional Chinese and Japanese kanji, where in Japanese it carries the same meaning of "to eat" but can also imply borrowing or consuming in a broader sense. This character is notably used in terms like "喰う" in Japanese, which is a more casual or rough verb for eating compared to the standard "食べる".
General Properties
| Code Point | U+55B0 |
| 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 | 喰 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 喰 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x96 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x55B0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000055B0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u55b0 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCangjie | ROIV |
| kCantonese | caan1 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0424.060 |
| kDefinition | to eat, drink |
| kEACC | 396074 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6803.2 |
| kHangul | 식:1 |
| kHanYu | 10658.040 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10658.040:cān,sūn,qī |
| kIICore | AJ |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0424.060 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10658.040 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0201.121 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-3368 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-9148 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3674 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-656A |
| kIRG_TSource | TF-3971 |
| kJapanese | サン ソン くい くう くらう |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kJapaneseKun | KUU KUI |
| kJis0 | 2284 |
| kKangXi | 0201.121 |
| kKorean | SIK |
| kMandarin | cān |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008494 MJ008493:E0102 MJ008494:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 04015 04015:E0103 |
| kNelson | 0955 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1772+30.3.9 V+7664+30.3.9 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.9 |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJ |