U+5625 "嘥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5625 "嘥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character that primarily appears in Cantonese, where it is pronounced "saai" and means to waste or squander resources, such as money or time. It is composed of the mouth radical on the left and a phonetic component on the right, reflecting its status as a colloquial term rather than a common literary character. In written Cantonese, it often appears in phrases like "嘥時間" meaning to waste time, and while it is not part of standard Mandarin vocabulary, it occasionally surfaces in regional texts or digital communication to convey a sense of wasteful consumption.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5625
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	嘥
HTML Hex Encoding	嘥
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x98 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5625
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005625
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5625

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

kCangjie	RHOO
kCantonese	saai1
kCheungBauer	030/11;RHOO;saai1,saai3,saai4
kCheungBauerIndex	378.06 378.07 378.08 378.09
kCowles	3569 3571
kDefinition	(Cant.) to waste; all, entirely
kHanYu	10677.101
kIICore	CH
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10677.101
kIRGKangXi	0206.201
kIRG_GSource	GH-1233
kIRG_HSource	H-9DE5
kKangXi	0206.201
kMandarin	sāi
kMeyerWempe	2525 2527
kPhonetic	1099*
kPseudoGB1	9221
kRSUnicode	30.11
kTotalStrokes	14
kUnihanCore2020	H