U+55BD "喽" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
喽
U+55BD "喽" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese writing, primarily functioning as a particle or interjection in colloquial speech, often to add emphasis or convey a casual, familiar tone, similar to "you know" or "right" at the end of a sentence. It appears in classical and modern texts, including the famous novel "Water Margin," where it helps reflect natural dialogue among characters. The character is composed of the "mouth" radical on the left, indicating its connection to spoken language, and the phonetic component "娄" on the right, which contributes to its pronunciation as "lou" or "lóu" in Mandarin.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+55BD |
| 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 | 喽 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 喽 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x96 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x55BD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000055BD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u55bd |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 273731 |
| kCangjie | RFDV |
| kCantonese | lau4 |
| kDefinition | used in onomatopoetic expressions |
| kEACC | 273731 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6904 |
| kGB0 | 6422 |
| kHanYu | 10661.030 |
| kHanyuPinlu | lou(46) |
| kIICore | CG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10661.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0201.121 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-6036 |
| kTGH | 2013:5158 |
| kKangXi | 0201.121 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0853 |
| kMandarin | lóu |
| kPhonetic | 780* |
| kRSUnicode | 30.9 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "喽" U+55BD CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 112.18 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 231.070:lóu 232.030:lou |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "喽" U+55BD CJK Unified Ideograph-# "嘍" U+560D CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0734.020:lóu 0735.050:lou |