U+55FB "嗻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+55FB "嗻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) pronounced in Mandarin as "zhē" or "zhè" depending on context, and it primarily functions as a particle or exclamation in classical or regional usage, often conveying a tone of reproach, dismissal, or agreement similar to "all right" or "yes" in informal settings. Historically, it appears in Chinese literature and dramatic works, such as Yuan dynasty opera, where it denotes a verbal acknowledgment or a dismissive interjection. In modern standard Chinese, it is rarely used in everyday writing, but it retains significance in linguistic studies of historical texts and dialects, representing a nuanced phonetic and semantic element within the vast CJK Unicode block.

General Properties

Code Point	U+55FB
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	嗻
HTML Hex Encoding	嗻
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x97 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding	0x55FB
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000055FB
C/C++/Java Escape	\u55fb

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	217224
kCNS1986	E-4628
kCNS1992	3-4628
kCangjie	RITF
kCantonese	ze1
kCheungBauer	030/11;;ze1
kCheungBauerIndex	379.07
kCihaiT	289.403
kCowles	3988
kDaeJaweon	0427.040
kDefinition	to screen. loquacious; (Cant.) final particle used to defend oneself or protest against others
kEACC	217224
kFanqie	之夜
kGB3	2313
kHanYu	10678.060
kHanyuPinyin	10678.060:zhè,zhē,zhù,zhe
kIRGDaeJaweon	0427.040
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10678.060
kIRGKangXi	0204.240
kIRG_GSource	G3-372D
kIRG_HSource	H-8BBD
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-008564
kIRG_KSource	K2-2846
kIRG_TSource	T3-4628
kJapanese	シャ ショ
kJapaneseKun	SAEGIRU
kJapaneseOn	SHA SHO
kKangXi	0204.240
kKorean	CHA
kMandarin	zhē
kMatthews	259
kMeyerWempe	2765
kMojiJoho	MJ008564
kMorohashi	04151
kPhonetic	1238
kRSUnicode	30.11
kSBGY	423.09
kSMSZD2003Index	116.11
kSMSZD2003Readings	zhè粵ze1
kSpecializedSemanticVariant	U+8655<kMeyerWempe
kTotalStrokes	14
kUnihanCore2020	H
kXHC1983	1462.030:zhē 1465.020:zhè