U+5638 "嘸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

嘸

U+5638 "嘸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi), used historically in both Classical and vernacular Chinese, that carries a complex range of meanings primarily related to negation or questioning. It is most often pronounced "wǔ" or "fǔ" in Mandarin and serves as an archaic or dialectal variant for words meaning "no," "not," or expressing rhetorical doubt, similar to the function of contemporary negatives. In classical texts, it also appears as a phonetic borrowing in names or transliterations, and its structure combines the mouth radical (口, suggesting speech or sound) with a phonetic component. While not common in modern standard written Chinese, it retains significance in historical literature, traditional poetry, and certain regional dialects or ritual contexts where older character forms are preserved.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5638
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	嘸
HTML Hex Encoding	嘸
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x98 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5638
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005638
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5638

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	E546
kCCCII	217267
kCNS1986	2-4F6D
kCNS1992	2-4F6D
kCangjie	ROTF
kCantonese	fu2
kCheungBauer	030/12;ROTF;mou1
kCheungBauerIndex	382.07
kCihaiT	291.102
kDaeJaweon	0430.180
kDefinition	unclear; an expletive; not
kEACC	217267
kFanqie	文甫扶雨
kFourCornerCode	6803.1
kGB1	6328
kHangul	무:1N
kHanYu	10684.020
kHanyuPinyin	10684.020:fǔ,m̄
kIICore	CT
kIRGDaeJaweon	0430.180
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10684.020
kIRGKangXi	0207.230
kIRG_GSource	G1-5F3C
kIRG_HSource	HB2-E546
kIRG_JSource	J0-535F
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-3AAA
kIRG_KSource	K1-6069
kIRG_TSource	T2-4F6D
kIRG_VSource	V2-8B2B
kJapanese	フムブさぞ
kKoreanName	2015
kJapaneseKun	SAZO
kJapaneseOn	BU
kJis0	5163
kKangXi	0207.230
kKorean	MWU
kMandarin	fǔ wǔ
kMojiJoho	MJ008630
kMorohashi	04269
kNelson	0988
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+4434+30.3.12
kRSUnicode	30.12
kSimplifiedVariant	"呒" U+5452 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	118.01
kSMSZD2003Readings	ḿ粵m4 fǔ粵fu2
kTaiwanTelegraph	8185
kTotalStrokes	15
kUnihanCore2020	HJMT
kXerox	275:374
kXHC1983	0753.011:ḿ