U+5617 "嘗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+5617 "嘗" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that generally means "to taste" or "to try," and it can also convey the sense of "to experience" or "to have tested" something. In classical and modern usage, it appears in words related to tasting food or drink, as well as in metaphorical contexts such as "never before" or "have not yet experienced." The character is composed of radicals including the component for "mouth" or "speech" and elements indicating flavor or ceremony, reflecting its original association with the act of tasting offerings. As a CJK Unified Ideograph, it belongs to the set of characters shared across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, where its simplified counterpart in Chinese is "尝."

General Properties

Code Point U+5617
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 嘗
HTML Hex Encoding 嘗
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x98 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding 0x5617
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00005617
C/C++/Java Escape \u5617

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 B9C1
kCCCII 213730
kCNS1986 1-6829
kCNS1992 1-6829
kCangjie FBRPA
kCantonese soeng4
kCihaiT 289.303
kCowles 3892
kDaeJaweon 0429.070
kDefinition taste; experience, experiment
kEACC 213730
kFanqie 市羊
kFenn 584A
kFennIndex 17.06
kFourCornerCode 9060.1
kGB1 1902
kGradeLevel 4
kGSR 0725f
kHangul 상:0E
kHanYu 21529.090
kHanyuPinlu cháng(38)
kHanyuPinyin 21529.090:cháng
kHKGlyph 0668
kIICore ATJHKMP
kIRGDaeJaweon 0429.070
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21529.090
kIRGKangXi 0206.090
kIRG_GSource G1-3322
kIRG_HSource HB1-B9C1
kIRG_JSource J0-3E28
kIRG_KPSource KP0-E1C8
kIRG_KSource K0-5F44
kIRG_TSource T1-6829
kJapanese ショウ ジョウ かつて なめる こころみる
kJinmeiyoKanji 2010
kKoreanEducationHanja 2007
kJapaneseKun NAMERU KOKOROMIRU KATTE
kJapaneseOn SHOU JOU
kJis0 3008
kKangXi 0206.090
kKorean SANG
kLau 2742
kMandarin cháng
kMatthews 229
kMeyerWempe 2676
kMojiJoho MJ008599
kMorohashi 04205
kNelson 1369
kPhonetic 1167
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+2448+30.3.11 C+2448+72.4.10
kRSUnicode 30.11
kSBGY 176.21
kSemanticVariant U+751E<kMeyerWempe
kSimplifiedVariant "尝" U+5C1D CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 116.05 295.10
kSMSZD2003Readings cháng粵soeng4
kTaiwanTelegraph 0863
kTang *zhiɑng
kTotalStrokes 14
kUnihanCore2020 HJKMPT
kXerox 250:335
kXHC1983 0120.121:cháng