U+55D9 "嗙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+55D9 "嗙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character classified under the Kangxi radical for "mouth" (口), and it is typically used to represent the sound of a bell or a metallic clang in Classical and modern Chinese texts. Its pronunciation in Standard Mandarin is pāng, and it also appears in some regional dialects with similar onomatopoeic meanings. Beyond its phonetic usage, the character can function as a verb meaning to brag or boast in certain colloquial contexts, though this sense is less common and often considered a variant or extended derivation. Overall, U+55D9 is a relatively rare character in everyday language, found more frequently in historical literature, classical poetry, or technical descriptions of sounds.

General Properties

Code Point U+55D9
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 嗙
HTML Hex Encoding 嗙
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x97 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding 0x55D9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000055D9
C/C++/Java Escape \u55d9

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 DCDF
kCCCII 21715D
kCNS1986 2-4226
kCNS1992 2-4226
kCangjie RYBS
kCantonese pong5
kCihaiT 287.401
kDaeJaweon 0425.190
kDefinition boast
kEACC 21715D
kFanqie 甫盲
kFourCornerCode 6002.7
kGB3 2294
kHanYu 10670.070
kHanyuPinyin 10670.070:bēng,bàng,pǎng
kIRGDaeJaweon 0425.190
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10670.070
kIRGKangXi 0202.390
kIRG_GSource G3-367E
kIRG_HSource HB2-DCDF
kIRG_JSource JMJ-008534
kIRG_KSource K2-283C
kIRG_TSource T2-4226
kIRG_VSource V1-4F6A
kJapanese ホウ
kJapaneseKun UTAU
kJapaneseOn HOU
kKangXi 0202.390
kKorean PANG
kMandarin pǎng
kMatthews 4928
kMojiJoho MJ008534
kMorohashi 04083
kPhonetic 1081
kRSUnicode 30.10
kSBGY 184.45
kSMSZD2003Index 114.08
kSMSZD2003Readings pǎng粵pong5
kTotalStrokes 13
kUnihanCore2020 HMT
kVietnamese bàng
kXerox 301:274
kXHC1983 0855.030:pǎng