U+561C "嘜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+561C "嘜" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used primarily in Cantonese and other southern Chinese dialects, where it functions as a phonetic or loanword component. In its most common usage, it serves as a transliteration for the English word "mark" or "ma" in brand names, such as "嘜嘜" (a transliteration of "Mark" or "Mac") or in terms like "嘜頭" (mark or brand label). It is composed of the "mouth" radical (口) and the phonetic component "麥" (mài), reflecting its role in forming borrowed or vernacular terms rather than carrying a native Chinese meaning. This character is also found in Unicode block CJK Unified Ideographs, supporting its integration into digital text systems for representing specialized or regional vocabulary.

General Properties

Code Point	U+561C
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	嘜
HTML Hex Encoding	嘜
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x98 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0x561C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0000561C
C/C++/Java Escape	\u561c

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	E14D
kCCCII	217234
kCNS1986	2-4934
kCNS1992	2-4934
kCangjie	RJON
kCantonese	mak1
kCheungBauer	030/11;RJON;maak1,maat1,mak1
kCheungBauerIndex	377.05 377.06 377.07
kCihaiT	290.202
kDefinition	mark
kEACC	217234
kFourCornerCode	6402.7
kGB1	6373
kHanYu	10674.040
kHanyuPinyin	10674.040:mà
kIICore	BTHM
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10674.040
kIRGKangXi	0206.201
kIRG_GSource	G1-5F69
kIRG_HSource	HB2-E14D
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-008605
kIRG_TSource	T2-4934
kJapanese	バ
kJapaneseOn	BA
kKangXi	0206.201
kMandarin	mà
kMojiJoho	MJ008605
kMorohashi	04231
kPhonetic	874
kRSUnicode	30.11
kSimplifiedVariant	"唛" U+551B CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	116.07 822.05
kSMSZD2003Readings	mà粵mak1
kTaiwanTelegraph	8202
kTotalStrokes	14
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	310:323