U+55B5 "喵" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
喵
U+55B5 "喵" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as an onomatopoeia representing the sound a cat makes, equivalent to "meow" in English. It is composed of the radical "口" (mouth) on the left, indicating sound or speech, and the phonetic component "苗" (young plant or sprout) on the right, which hints at its pronunciation. In modern Chinese, it is commonly used in informal contexts, such as internet slang or children's writing, and also appears in some compound words or terms related to cats. Historically, it is attested in classical Chinese texts, often denoting soft, catlike vocalizations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+55B5 |
| 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 | 喵 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 喵 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x96 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x55B5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000055B5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u55b5 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | D870 |
| kCCCII | 217147 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-3A54 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-3A54 |
| kCangjie | RTW |
| kCantonese | miu1 |
| kDefinition | the mew of the cat |
| kEACC | 217147 |
| kFenn | 817H |
| kFennIndex | 339.08 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6406.0 |
| kGB0 | 6387 |
| kGB1 | 6387 |
| kHanYu | 10637.060 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10637.060:miāo |
| kIICore | BGT |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10637.060 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0201.121 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5F77 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-D870 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-008499 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-3A54 |
| kIRG_VSource | V0-3248 |
| kJapanese | ミャオ |
| kTGH | 2013:4819 |
| kKangXi | 0201.121 |
| kLau | 2152 |
| kMandarin | miāo |
| kMatthews | 4471 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008499 |
| kMorohashi | 04024 |
| kPhonetic | 908 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.9 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 110.09 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | miāo粵miu1 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 252.030:miāo |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kVietnamese | mếu |
| kXerox | 273:167 |
| kXHC1983 | 0787.020:miāo |