U+55F4 "嗴" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+55F4 "嗴" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese ideograph used in the written form of the Chinese language, primarily in traditional and simplified scripts. Its pronunciation is typically represented as "qiāng" or "qiàng" in pinyin, and it is a rare or obscure character not commonly found in everyday usage. The meaning of "嗴" is largely obscure, with historical dictionaries and linguistic sources suggesting it may denote a sound or an action, often associated with crying or making a noise, though specific definitions vary and are not widely documented in modern standard Chinese. This character belongs to the radical "口" (mouth), indicating its connection to vocal or oral expressions, and it is classified as part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block in the Unicode standard, which aims to encode characters from these East Asian writing systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+55F4
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 嗴
HTML Hex Encoding 嗴
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x97 0xB4
UTF-16 Encoding 0x55F4
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000055F4
C/C++/Java Escape \u55f4

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 217156
kCNS1986 E-6458
kCNS1992 3-6458
kCangjie RTUI
kCantonese goeng1
kEACC 217156
kHanYu 10670.081
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10670.081
kIRGKangXi 0204.111
kIRG_GSource GE-3370
kIRG_TSource T3-6458
kKangXi 0204.111
kMandarin qiāng
kRSUnicode 30.10
kTotalStrokes 12