U+55E5 "嗥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
嗥
U+55E5 "嗥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily signifies the howling or roaring of wild animals, most commonly wolves. It is composed of the mouth radical on the left, indicating a sound or vocalization, and a phonetic component on the right that contributes to its pronunciation, which in Mandarin is "háo". This ideograph appears in classical and modern Chinese literature to depict fierce, resonant animal cries, often evoking a sense of wilderness or danger, and it can also be used metaphorically to describe loud, harsh human shouting or wailing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+55E5 |
| 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 | 嗥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 嗥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x97 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x55E5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000055E5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u55e5 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B6E7 |
| kCCCII | 21373E |
| kCNS1986 | 1-634E |
| kCNS1992 | 1-634E |
| kCangjie | RHAJ |
| kCantonese | hou4 |
| kCihaiT | 288.106 |
| kDefinition | roar, call out, wail; bark, yelp |
| kEACC | 217175 |
| kFanqie | 胡刀 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6604.3 |
| kGB0 | 6438 |
| kGB1 | 6438 |
| kHanYu | 10668.130 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10668.130:háo |
| kHKGlyph | 0657 |
| kIICore | AGTHM |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10668.130 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0204.111 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-6046 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B6E7 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-008552 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3A6B |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-2840 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-634E |
| kJapanese | コウ |
| kTGH | 2013:5468 |
| kJapaneseOn | KOU |
| kKangXi | 0204.111 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0881 |
| kMandarin | háo |
| kMatthews | 2073 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008552 |
| kMorohashi | 04133 |
| kPhonetic | 639 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.10 |
| kSBGY | 154.55 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+568E<kMatthews U+5637<kMatthews |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 115.01 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | háo粵hou4 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 132.080:háo |
| kTotalStrokes | 13 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kXerox | 274:074 |
| kXHC1983 | 0445.010:háo |