U+5621 "嘡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
嘡
U+5621 "嘡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (Hanzi) that primarily functions as an onomatopoeic word, commonly used in Mandarin to represent a loud banging, clanging, or crashing sound, such as the noise of a door slamming or a heavy object falling. It is composed of the radical "口" (mouth, relating to sound or speech) on the left, and the phonetic component "堂" (táng, meaning hall or room) on the right, which provides a clue to its pronunciation (pronounced as tāng in Mandarin). This character is relatively rare in contemporary written Chinese and is more often encountered in colloquial or literary contexts, particularly in novels or dialogue when describing sudden, sharp auditory events.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5621 |
| 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 | 嘡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 嘡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x98 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5621 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005621 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5621 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCangjie | RFBG |
| kCantonese | tong1 |
| kDefinition | onomatopoeic: clang, bang |
| kFourCornerCode | 6901.4 |
| kGB3 | 2306 |
| kHanYu | 10676.030 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10676.030:tāng |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10676.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0206.201 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-3726 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-8DA9 |
| kTGH | 2013:5716 |
| kKangXi | 0206.201 |
| kMandarin | tāng |
| kRSUnicode | 30.11 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 116.15 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | tāng粵tong1 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 359.110:tāng |
| kTotalStrokes | 14 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GH |
| kXHC1983 | 1117.050:tāng |