U+55DC "嗜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+55DC "嗜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily conveys the meaning of "to be fond of" or "to have a strong liking or addiction to" something, often with a connotation of habitual indulgence or craving. Its structure combines the mouth radical (口) on the outside and the phonetic component (耆) inside, which together evoke the idea of enjoying or savoring something repeatedly. This character appears frequently in compound words such as 嗜好 (shì hào), meaning "hobby" or "addiction," and 嗜睡 (shì shuì), meaning "drowsy" or "excessive sleepiness." In classical and modern Chinese, it is used to describe strong preferences, whether for foods, habits, or other activities, and it sometimes carries a slightly negative implication of overindulgence.

General Properties

Code Point U+55DC
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 嗜
HTML Hex Encoding 嗜
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x97 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding 0x55DC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000055DC
C/C++/Java Escape \u55dc

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

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kDefinition be fond of, have weakness for
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kFanqie 常利
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kGradeLevel 4
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kHanYu 10664.160
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kHKGlyph 0647
kIICore AGTJHKMP
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kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10664.160
kIRGKangXi 0203.060
kIRG_GSource G0-4A48
kIRG_HSource HB1-B6DD
kIRG_JSource J0-534F
kIRG_KPSource KP0-D2BA
kIRG_KSource K0-506E
kIRG_TSource T1-6344
kJapanese シ ジ たしなみ たしなむ
kKoreanName 2015
kTGH 2013:2902
kJapaneseKun TASHINAMU TASHINAMI
kJapaneseOn SHI
kJis0 5147
kKangXi 0203.060
kKarlgren 340
kKorean KI
kLau 2763
kMainlandTelegraph 0841
kMandarin shì
kMatthews 5800
kMeyerWempe 2695
kMojiJoho MJ008537
kMorohashi 04089
kNelson 0972
kPhonetic 603
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+4418+30.3.10
kRSUnicode 30.10
kSBGY 352.31
kSMSZD2003Index 114.01
kSMSZD2003Readings shì粵si3
kTaiwanTelegraph 0841
kTGHZ2013 338.130:shì
kTotalStrokes 13
kUnihanCore2020 GHJKMPT
kXerox 262:164
kXHC1983 1051.020:shì