U+55E4 "嗤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

嗤

U+55E4 "嗤" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily represents a sound of sneering, laughing contemptuously, or snickering, often used to convey disdain or ridicule in written language. It belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) Unified Ideographs block and is composed of the radical 口 (mouth) on the left, indicating a vocal or sound-related meaning, and the phonetic component 蚩 (chī) on the right. In classical and modern texts, 嗤 appears in phrases like 嗤笑 (chīxiào, to sneer) and carries a negative connotation of mocking laughter. This character is also used in Japanese, where it shares similar meanings, and is encoded as a standard part of East Asian typography for representing sarcastic or derisive expressions.

General Properties

Code Point	U+55E4
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	嗤
HTML Hex Encoding	嗤
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x97 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding	0x55E4
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000055E4
C/C++/Java Escape	\u55e4

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	B6E1
kCCCII	21367D
kCNS1986	1-6348
kCNS1992	1-6348
kCangjie	RUMI
kCantonese	ci1
kCihaiT	288.201
kCowles	519
kDaeJaweon	0426.110
kDefinition	laugh at, ridicule, sneer; snort
kEACC	21367D
kFanqie	赤之
kFenn	664G
kFennIndex	72.05
kFourCornerCode	6203.6
kGB0	6445
kGB1	6445
kHangul	치:0N
kHanYu	10671.170
kHanyuPinyin	10671.170:chī
kHKGlyph	0651
kIICore	AGTJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0426.110
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10671.170
kIRGKangXi	0203.330
kIRG_GSource	G0-604D
kIRG_HSource	HB1-B6E1
kIRG_JSource	J0-5350
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-EEEA
kIRG_KSource	K0-7638
kIRG_TSource	T1-6348
kJapanese	シわらう
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:5475
kJapaneseKun	WARAU
kJapaneseOn	SHI
kJis0	5148
kKangXi	0203.330
kKorean	CHI
kMainlandTelegraph	0844
kMandarin	chī
kMatthews	1019
kMeyerWempe	254b
kMojiJoho	MJ008549 MJ008549:E0103 MJ008550:E0104 MJ008551:E0105
kMorohashi	04110 04110:E0103
kNelson	0967
kPhonetic	154
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+4419+30.3.10 V+7820+30.3.10 V+14114+30.3.10
kRSUnicode	30.10
kSBGY	063.01
kSMSZD2003Index	114.06
kSMSZD2003Readings	chī粵ci1
kTaiwanTelegraph	0844
kTang	chiə
kTGHZ2013	045.100:chī
kTotalStrokes	13
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kXerox	273:126
kXHC1983	0142.070:chī