U+55F7 "嗷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+55F7 "嗷" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that typically represents a loud, prolonged sound or cry, often associated with the howling of animals or the clamor of a crowd. It is composed of the mouth radical (口) on the left and the phonetic component 敖 (áo) on the right, which together convey the sense of a vocal outburst. In classical and modern Chinese usage, "嗷" appears in words like 嗷嗷 (áo áo), meaning a woeful or desperate wailing sound, and it can also be found in literary descriptions of noisy, chaotic environments.

General Properties

Code Point U+55F7
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 嗷
HTML Hex Encoding 嗷
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x97 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding 0x55F7
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000055F7
C/C++/Java Escape \u55f7

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 B9C8
kCCCII 213728
kCNS1986 1-6830
kCNS1992 1-6830
kCangjie RGSK
kCantonese ngou4
kCihaiT 290.104
kCowles 3050
kDaeJaweon 0426.350
kDefinition loud clamor; sound of wailing
kEACC 213728
kFanqie 五勞
kFourCornerCode 6804.0
kGB0 6427
kGB1 6427
kGSR 1130e
kHangul 오:1N
kHanYu 10664.040
kHanyuPinyin 10664.040:áo
kHKGlyph 0664
kIICore AGTHM
kIRGDaeJaweon 0426.350
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10664.040
kIRGKangXi 0204.150
kIRG_GSource G0-603B
kIRG_HSource HB1-B9C8
kIRG_JSource J0-5353
kIRG_KPSource KP1-3A9D
kIRG_KSource K1-6826
kIRG_TSource T1-6830
kIRG_VSource V0-325A
kJapanese ゴウ
kKoreanName 2015
kTGH 2013:5434
kJapaneseKun KAMABISUSHI
kJapaneseOn GOU
kJis0 5151
kKangXi 0204.150
kKorean O
kMainlandTelegraph 0869
kMandarin áo
kMatthews 56
kMeyerWempe 2055
kMojiJoho MJ008559
kMorohashi 04142
kNelson 0979
kPhonetic 966
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+4422+30.3.11
kRSUnicode 30.11
kSBGY 158.17
kSMSZD2003Index 115.11
kSMSZD2003Readings áo粵ngou4
kTaiwanTelegraph 0869
kTang ngɑu
kTGHZ2013 005.020:áo
kTotalStrokes 13
kUnihanCore2020 GHJMT
kVietnamese ngao
kXerox 277:252
kXHC1983 0011.130:áo