U+55B7 "喷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+55B7 "喷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily meaning "to spurt," "to spray," or "to puff," and is commonly used in modern Mandarin to describe the forceful emission of liquids, gases, or particles, as seen in words like 喷泉 (fountain) and 喷气 (jet). It is composed of the mouth radical (口) on the left, indicating its association with breath or speech, and a phonetic component on the right that hints at its pronunciation "pēn" or "pèn." In addition to its literal sense, the character has taken on metaphorical and internet slang meanings, where it can signify criticizing or arguing forcefully online, as in the term 喷子 (a habitual online critic or troll). This character is a standard part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph set, used across multiple East Asian writing systems with consistent meaning but varied pronunciation.

General Properties

Code Point U+55B7
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 喷
HTML Hex Encoding 喷
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x96 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding 0x55B7
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000055B7
C/C++/Java Escape \u55b7

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 273745
kCangjie RJTO
kCantonese pan3
kDefinition spurt, blow out, puff out
kEACC 273745
kFourCornerCode 6408
kGB0 3771
kHanYu 10649.030
kHanyuPinlu pēn(111)
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10649.030
kIRGKangXi 0201.121
kIRG_GSource G0-4567
kTGH 2013:2618
kKangXi 0201.121
kMainlandTelegraph 0899
kMandarin pēn
kPhonetic 1020*
kRSUnicode 30.9
kSMSZD2003Index 112.17
kTGHZ2013 278.100:pēn 278.130:pèn
kTotalStrokes 12
kTraditionalVariant "噴" U+5674 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0861.040:pēn 0862.030:pèn