U+55BE "喾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+55BE "喾" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is an ancient Chinese character traditionally pronounced as "ku" in Mandarin, and it refers to the legendary Emperor Ku, also known as Di Ku, one of the Five Emperors in Chinese mythology and early historical records, who was believed to be a wise and benevolent ruler from the predynastic period, often associated with the invention of music and the regulation of the calendar. This ideograph is composed of the phonetic component "告" and the semantic radical "口," and it appears primarily in classical texts, historical writings, and modern contexts where ancient Chinese mythology or genealogy is discussed.

General Properties

Code Point	U+55BE
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	喾
HTML Hex Encoding	喾
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x96 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding	0x55BE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000055BE
C/C++/Java Escape	\u55be

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	27735A
kCangjie	FBHGR
kCantonese	guk1
kDefinition	emperor
kEACC	27735A
kFourCornerCode	9060
kGB0	6423
kHanYu	10662.010
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10662.010
kIRGKangXi	0201.121
kIRG_GSource	G0-6037
kTGH	2013:5301
kKangXi	0201.121
kMainlandTelegraph	8185
kMandarin	kù
kPhonetic	642*
kRSUnicode	30.9
kSMSZD2003Index	112.19
kTGHZ2013	200.010:kù
kTotalStrokes	12
kTraditionalVariant	"嚳" U+56B3 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0655.010:kù