U+55B4 "喴" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+55B4 "喴" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, and it is composed of the radical for "mouth" (口) combined with the phonetic component "威" (wēi). It is a relatively rare character, primarily used in classical Chinese and some specialized or archaic texts rather than in modern everyday writing. Its meaning is associated with the sound of a loud, sharp cry or shout, often conveying an imperative or exclamatory tone. In modern usage, it is occasionally employed in personal names or poetic contexts, but it is not a common or frequently encountered character in standard Chinese language or digital communication.

General Properties

Code Point	U+55B4
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	喴
HTML Hex Encoding	喴
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x96 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding	0x55B4
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000055B4
C/C++/Java Escape	\u55b4

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

kCCCII	217136
kCNS1986	E-3A2F
kCNS1992	3-3A2F
kCangjie	RIHV
kCantonese	wai1
kCheungBauer	030/09;RIHV;wi1
kCheungBauerIndex	369.05
kCowles	4986
kDefinition	hello; (Cant.) phonetic
kEACC	217136
kGB3	2267
kHanYu	10652.010
kHanyuPinyin	10652.010:wēi
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10652.010
kIRGKangXi	0201.121
kIRG_GSource	G3-3663
kIRG_HSource	H-92DE
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-008498
kIRG_TSource	T3-3A2F
kJapanese	イ
kJapaneseOn	I
kKangXi	0201.121
kMandarin	wēi
kMeyerWempe	3718
kMojiJoho	MJ008498
kMorohashi	04023
kPhonetic	1424
kRSUnicode	30.9
kTaiwanTelegraph	8200
kTotalStrokes	12
kUnihanCore2020	H
kXerox	302:127