U+55E0 "嗠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+55E0 "嗠" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and archaic Chinese character found in classical texts, primarily used to represent the sound or meaning associated with the act of summoning or calling aloud, though its precise usage is obscure and it is not commonly employed in modern standard Mandarin. This character belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block, which encompasses a vast collection of historical and regional characters, and its structure combines the mouth radical on the left with a phonetic or semantic component on the right, reflecting traditional logographic principles. Its appearance is largely confined to specialized dictionaries or historical documents, making it of greater interest to linguists and scholars of ancient writing than to everyday readers.

General Properties

Code Point U+55E0
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 嗠
HTML Hex Encoding 嗠
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x97 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding 0x55E0
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000055E0
C/C++/Java Escape \u55e0

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

kCCCII 237078
kCangjie BDHER
kCantonese lok6
kDaeJaweon 0426.050
kHangul 락:1N
kHanYu 10669.030
kIRGDaeJaweon 0426.050
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10669.030
kIRGKangXi 0203.250
kIRG_GSource GE-336D
kIRG_JSource JMJ-008543
kIRG_KSource K1-5D7C
kIRG_TSource T6-5143
kJapanese ラク ロ
kKoreanName 2015
kKangXi 0203.250
kKorean LA
kMandarin lào
kMojiJoho MJ008543
kMorohashi 04104
kRSUnicode 30.10
kTotalStrokes 13