U+55C7 "嗇" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
嗇
U+55C7 "嗇" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that traditionally conveys the meanings of stinginess, frugality, or miserliness. It is composed of the "mouth" radical (口) and the phonetic component "啬," which itself relates to the idea of preserving or hoarding. In various East Asian scripts, including traditional Chinese and Japanese (where it is known as the kanji 嗇), this character appears in contexts describing someone who is reluctant to spend or share, and it also carries a secondary, less common sense of agricultural cultivation or the gathering of crops. Its usage today is somewhat archaic compared to modern simplified alternatives, but it remains recognized in literary, historical, and formal writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+55C7 |
| 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 | 嗇 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 嗇 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x97 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x55C7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000055C7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u55c7 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B6DE |
| kCCCII | 213678 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6345 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6345 |
| kCangjie | GOWR |
| kCantonese | sik1 |
| kCihaiT | 287.206 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0424.320 |
| kDefinition | miserly, thrifty, stingy; stopped up, constipated |
| kEACC | 213678 |
| kFanqie | 所力 |
| kFenn | 770E |
| kFennIndex | 431.07 |
| kFourCornerCode | 4060.1 |
| kGB1 | 5636 |
| kGradeLevel | 5 |
| kGSR | 0926a |
| kHangul | 색:0N |
| kHanYu | 10665.110 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10665.110:sè |
| kHKGlyph | 0648 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0424.320 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10665.110 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0202.050 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-5844 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B6DE |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5427 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E5F0 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-5F60 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6345 |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-8A7A |
| kJapanese | ショク シキ おしむ やぶさか |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | OSHIMU YABUSAKA |
| kJapaneseOn | SHOKU |
| kJis0 | 5207 |
| kKangXi | 0202.050 |
| kKorean | SAYK |
| kMandarin | sè |
| kMatthews | 5447 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2705a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008514 |
| kMorohashi | 04053 |
| kNelson | 0067 |
| kPhonetic | 1191 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4472+30.3.10 C+4472+31.3.10 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.10 |
| kSBGY | 526.33 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "啬" U+556C CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 113.05 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | sè粵sik1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0835 |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kXerox | 262:131 |
| kXHC1983 | 0989.091:sè |