U+5622 "嘢" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5622 "嘢" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used primarily in Cantonese, where it represents a versatile colloquial term meaning "thing," "stuff," or "matter," and can also imply "field" or "area" in certain contexts, conveying a sense of something tangible, abstract, or place. It is not a common character in standard Mandarin, but it appears frequently in Hong Kong and southern Chinese dialects, often in informal speech or writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5622
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	嘢
HTML Hex Encoding	嘢
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x98 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5622
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005622
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5622

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

kCCCII	23713E
kCNS1986	E-6459
kCNS1992	3-6459
kCangjie	RWGN
kCantonese	je5
kCheungBauer	030/11;RWGN;je5
kCheungBauerIndex	376.08
kCowles	5175
kDefinition	(Cant.) thing
kHanYu	10676.040
kHanyuPinyin	10676.040:yě
kIICore	BHM
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10676.040
kIRGKangXi	0206.201
kIRG_GSource	GH-1232
kIRG_HSource	H-9DCF
kIRG_TSource	T3-6459
kKangXi	0206.201
kLau	3376
kMandarin	yě
kMeyerWempe	3868c
kPhonetic	1521*
kPseudoGB1	9220
kRSUnicode	30.11
kTotalStrokes	14
kUnihanCore2020	HM
kXerox	320:135