U+55C8 "嗈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

嗈

U+55C8 "嗈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character found in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) Unified Ideographs block. It primarily functions as a seldom-used, classical character often associated with the sound of sighing or a gentle, murmured tone in literary Chinese texts. Its structure combines the mouth radical (口) on the left, indicating a relation to speech or sound, with a phonetic component on the right, and it does not belong to the common vocabulary of modern Standard Chinese. This character appears mostly in historical or poetic contexts, where it serves to evoke a subtle auditory nuance.

General Properties

Code Point	U+55C8
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	嗈
HTML Hex Encoding	嗈
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x97 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding	0x55C8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000055C8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u55c8

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

kBigFive	DCDC
kCCCII	21717A
kCNS1986	2-4223
kCNS1992	2-4223
kCangjie	RVVU
kCantonese	jung1
kDaeJaweon	0424.330
kDefinition	the call of a bird
kFanqie	於容
kFourCornerCode	6201.7
kGB5	2525
kHanYu	10672.070
kHanyuPinyin	10672.070:yōng
kIRGDaeJaweon	0424.330
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10672.070
kIRGKangXi	0202.100
kIRG_GSource	G5-3939
kIRG_HSource	HB2-DCDC
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-008515
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-3A72
kIRG_KSource	K2-282F
kIRG_TSource	T2-4223
kJapanese	ヨウユ
kJapaneseOn	YOU YU
kKangXi	0202.100
kKorean	ONG
kMandarin	yōng
kMojiJoho	MJ008515
kMorohashi	04054
kPhonetic	1653*
kRSUnicode	30.10
kSBGY	036.09
kTaiwanTelegraph	8179
kTotalStrokes	13
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	310:317
kXHC1983	1391.150:yōng