U+5605 "嘅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
嘅
U+5605 "嘅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character pronounced as "ge" in Cantonese and "gài" or "kǎi" in Mandarin, with its primary meaning relating to the verb "to cough" or the sound of coughing, though it is most widely used today as a possessive or modifying particle in written Cantonese, roughly equivalent to the Mandarin "的" (de) and functioning similarly to the English apostrophe-s or the word "of" in descriptive phrases.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5605 |
| 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 | 嘅 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 嘅 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x98 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5605 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005605 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5605 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kAlternateTotalStrokes | 15:J |
| kCCCII | 21712A |
| kCNS1986 | E-4636 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-4636 |
| kCangjie | RAIU |
| kCantonese | ge3 |
| kCheungBauer | 030/09;RAIU;ge2,ge3 |
| kCheungBauerIndex | 366.11 367.01 |
| kCihaiT | 290.108 |
| kCowles | 1600 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0427.200 |
| kDefinition | sound of sighing; (Cant.) possessive |
| kEACC | 21712A |
| kFanqie | 苦蓋 |
| kGSR | 0515m |
| kHanYu | 10662.090 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10662.090:kài,gé |
| kIICore | BHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0427.200 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10662.090 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0204.430 |
| kIRG_GSource | GH-1231 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-9DEF |
| kIRG_JSource | J1-362A |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3A7D |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-284A |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-4636 |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-713E |
| kJapanese | ガイ カイ なげく |
| kJapaneseKun | NAGEKU |
| kJapaneseOn | KAI GAI |
| kJis1 | 2210 |
| kKangXi | 0204.430 |
| kKorean | KAY |
| kLau | 875 |
| kMandarin | kǎi |
| kMatthews | 3209 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1090 1212d |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008574 MJ008574:E0102 MJ008576:E0103 MJ008575:E0104 MJ008577:E0105 |
| kMorohashi | 04170 04170:E0102 |
| kPhonetic | 599B |
| kPseudoGB1 | 9217 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+19255+30.3.12 V+21293+30.3.11 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.11 |
| kSBGY | 390.27 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 112.14 117.03 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0854 |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HM |
| kXerox | 275:372 |
| kXHC1983 | 0631.011:kǎi |