U+55D1 "嗑" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

嗑

U+55D1 "嗑" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used in written Chinese and other languages that utilize CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) scripts. It is commonly pronounced as "kè" in Mandarin and carries meanings related to the action of cracking or nibbling hard objects with the teeth, such as seeds or nuts, as seen in the word "嗑瓜子" (kè guāzǐ, to crack sunflower seeds). Additionally, it can denote the act of chatting or talking idly, used colloquially in phrases like "唠嗑" (làokē), which means to have a casual conversation. This character belongs to the radical "口" (mouth), reflecting its oral and vocal associations, and is encoded in the CJK Unified Ideographs block of the Unicode standard, representing a logogram with rich cultural and linguistic usage in East Asian societies.

General Properties

Code Point	U+55D1
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	嗑
HTML Hex Encoding	嗑
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x97 0x91
UTF-16 Encoding	0x55D1
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000055D1
C/C++/Java Escape	\u55d1

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	B6DF
kCCCII	213675
kCNS1986	1-6346
kCNS1992	1-6346
kCangjie	RGIT
kCantonese	haap3
kCihaiT	287.304
kCowles	943
kDaeJaweon	0425.050
kDefinition	eat seeds; reproach; loquacious
kEACC	213675
kFanqie	胡臘古盍
kFourCornerCode	6401.7
kGB0	6430
kGB1	6430
kGSR	0642p
kHangul	합:1N
kHanYu	10665.020
kHanyuPinyin	10665.020:kè,hé,xiá
kHKGlyph	0649
kIICore	AGTHM
kIRGDaeJaweon	0425.050
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10665.020
kIRGKangXi	0202.240
kIRG_GSource	G0-603E
kIRG_HSource	HB1-B6DF
kIRG_JSource	J14-2436
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-3A69
kIRG_KSource	K1-7326
kIRG_TSource	T1-6346
kJapanese	コウあう
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:5441
kJIS0213	2,04,22
kJapaneseKun	OSHIYABERI AHU NOMU KATARU
kJapaneseOn	KAHU
kJis1	2193
kKangXi	0202.240
kKorean	HAP
kMainlandTelegraph	0836
kMandarin	kē
kMatthews	2120
kMeyerWempe	805c
kMojiJoho	MJ008525
kMorohashi	04068
kPhonetic	508
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+17384+30.3.10
kRSUnicode	30.10
kSBGY	536.53 537.72
kSMSZD2003Index	113.09
kSMSZD2003Readings	kè粵haap3 hé粵hap6
kTaiwanTelegraph	0836
kTGHZ2013	195.080:kē 197.010:kè
kTotalStrokes	13
kUnihanCore2020	GHMT
kXerox	277:251
kXHC1983	0638.010:kē 0642.020:kè