U+55F5 "嗵" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+55F5 "嗵" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as an onomatopoeic word in Mandarin, representing a variety of thumping, pounding, or heavy beating sounds, such as the thud of a drum, the rumble of an explosion, or the heavy footstep of a person or animal. It is classified under the CJK Unified Ideographs block, which encodes characters used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, and is composed of the radical "口" (mouth or opening) on the left, indicating its connection to sound or speech, combined with the phonetic component "通" (tōng) on the right. This character is not among the most frequently used in everyday writing but appears in literary texts, descriptive narratives, and certain colloquial expressions to vividly convey auditory imagery.

General Properties

Code Point U+55F5
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 嗵
HTML Hex Encoding 嗵
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x97 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding 0x55F5
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000055F5
C/C++/Java Escape \u55f5

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

kCangjie RYNB
kCantonese tung1
kDefinition used for sound
kEACC 70604C
kFourCornerCode 6703
kGB0 6444
kGB1 6444
kHanYu 10672.020
kHanyuPinyin 10672.020:tōng
kIICore CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10672.020
kIRGKangXi 0206.201
kIRG_GSource G0-604C
kIRG_HSource H-99E7
kTGH 2013:5476
kKangXi 0206.201
kMandarin tōng
kRSUnicode 30.10
kTGHZ2013 369.020:tōng
kTotalStrokes 13
kUnihanCore2020 GH
kXerox 317:302
kXHC1983 1150.010:tōng