U+5618 "嘘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

嘘

U+5618 "嘘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "hush" or "shush," used to demand silence or to express a sigh of disappointment or relief, though it can also denote breathing out slowly or a soft exhalation. In modern Mandarin, it is commonly written as the simplified character 嘘 (traditional also 噓) and appears in phrases like "嘘声" (booing) or "吹嘘" (to boast). The character is composed of the radical 口 (mouth) on the left, indicating speech or sound, and the phonetic component 虚 (empty, false) on the right. Beyond its literal meaning, it is recognized in Unicode as part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block, encoded since version 1.1, and is used across East Asian languages with similar functions in writing and communication.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5618
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	嘘
HTML Hex Encoding	嘘
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x98 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5618
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005618
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5618

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

kCNS1986	E-4633
kCNS1992	3-4633
kCangjie	RYPC
kCantonese	heoi1
kDefinition	exhale; blow out; deep sigh; hiss; praise
kFourCornerCode	6101.7
kGB0	4874
kGB1	4874
kHanYu	10675.120
kHanyuPinlu	xū(10)
kHanyuPinyin	10675.120:xū,shī
kIICore	AGJ
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10675.120
kIRGKangXi	0206.100
kIRG_GSource	G0-506A
kIRG_JSource	J0-3133
kIRG_KSource	K2-2850
kIRG_TSource	T3-4633
kIRG_VSource	V2-8B30
kJapanese	キョコうそ
kTGH	2013:5715
kJapaneseKun	FUKU USO
kJapaneseOn	KYO
kJis0	1719
kKangXi	0206.100
kKorean	HE
kMainlandTelegraph	0864
kMandarin	xū
kMeyerWempe	817
kMojiJoho	MJ008600
kNelson	0993
kPhonetic	515*
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+1237+30.3.11
kRSUnicode	30.11
kTGHZ2013	334.130:shī 412.200:xū
kTotalStrokes	14
kTraditionalVariant	"噓" U+5653 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	GJ
kXHC1983	1033.020:shī 1301.020:xū