U+562E "嘮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
嘮
U+562E "嘮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used primarily in traditional Chinese, where it means to chatter, nag, or talk incessantly, often conveying a sense of annoyance or trivial conversation. It is composed of the mouth radical 口 (kǒu) on the left, which relates to speech, and the phonetic component 勞 (láo) on the right, which also carries the meaning of "toil" or "labor," giving the character its pronunciation and nuanced association with tiresome talking. This character appears in various contexts, including colloquial expressions and classic literature, and remains part of the modern Chinese lexicon, especially in informal settings where lengthy or repetitive speech is described.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+562E |
| 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 | 嘮 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 嘮 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x98 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x562E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000562E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u562e |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BC47 |
| kCCCII | 213732 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6C31 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6C31 |
| kCangjie | RFFS |
| kCantonese | lou4 |
| kCihaiT | 290.607 |
| kCowles | 2403 |
| kDefinition | chat, jaw, gossip, talk |
| kEACC | 213732 |
| kFanqie | 敕交 |
| kFenn | 449H |
| kFennIndex | 288.09 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6902.7 |
| kGB1 | 6375 |
| kHanYu | 10686.100 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10686.100:chāo,láo,lào,xiāo |
| kHKGlyph | 0670 |
| kIICore | ATHM |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10686.100 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0206.280 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-5F6B |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BC47 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-008617 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3AA8 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-2856 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6C31 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4F74 |
| kJapanese | トウ タ コウ ロウ キョウ チョウ |
| kJapaneseKun | KAMABISUSHII SAKEBU KOE |
| kJapaneseOn | TOU CHOU TA KOU KYOU ROU |
| kKangXi | 0206.280 |
| kKorean | CHO |
| kMandarin | láo |
| kMatthews | 3827 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1622 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008617 |
| kMorohashi | 04242 |
| kPhonetic | 821 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.12 |
| kSBGY | 154.46 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "唠" U+5520 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 117.12 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | lào粵lou4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 8184 |
| kTotalStrokes | 15 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |
| kVietnamese | lao |
| kXerox | 273:071 |
| kXHC1983 | 0678.021:láo 0682.081:lào |