U+55B8 "喸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+55B8 "喸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in classical and modern contexts, primarily representing a sound or phonetic element in certain words, though it is not among the most commonly used characters in everyday writing. This character belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block and carries the meaning related to a mouth or speech action, often associated with the act of prompting or urging a horse, derived from its radical "口" (mouth) and phonetic component "甫". Its usage appears in historical texts and specialized literary works, and it is encoded in Unicode to ensure consistent representation across digital systems for East Asian languages.

General Properties

Code Point	U+55B8
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	喸
HTML Hex Encoding	喸
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x96 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x55B8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000055B8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u55b8

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

kCangjie	IBRP
kCantonese	fu2
kDaeJaweon	0424.050
kDefinition	place name
kHanYu	10651.051
kIRGDaeJaweon	0424.050
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10651.051
kIRGKangXi	0201.121
kIRG_GSource	GK-685C
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-068028
kIRG_KSource	K2-2827
kKangXi	0201.121
kKorean	PHOS
kMandarin	bǔ
kMojiJoho	MJ068028
kPhonetic	386*
kPseudoGB1	9366
kRSUnicode	30.9
kTotalStrokes	12