U+563B "嘻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
嘻
U+563B "嘻" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily conveys the sound of laughter, often used in informal writing to represent a lighthearted giggle or chuckle, similar to "hee hee" or "ha ha" in English. It is composed of the radical 口 (kǒu, meaning "mouth") on the left, indicating speech or sound, and the phonetic component 喜 (xǐ, meaning "joy" or "happiness") on the right, which together suggest joyful vocal expression. Commonly appearing in words like 笑嘻嘻 (xiào xī xī, meaning "grinning broadly" or "laughing happily"), this character carries a cheerful, playful connotation and is frequently used in Chinese social media, comics, and casual conversation to depict amusement without sarcasm.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+563B |
| 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 | 嘻 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 嘻 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x98 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x563B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000563B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u563b |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BC48 |
| kCCCII | 213737 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-6C32 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-6C32 |
| kCangjie | RGRR |
| kCantonese | hei1 |
| kCihaiT | 290.404 |
| kCowles | 1022 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0430.250 |
| kDefinition | mirthful, happy; interjection |
| kEACC | 213737 |
| kFanqie | 許其 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6406.1 |
| kGB0 | 4691 |
| kGB1 | 4691 |
| kGSR | 0955e |
| kHangul | 희:1N |
| kHanYu | 10680.150 |
| kHanyuPinlu | xī(42) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10680.150:xī |
| kHKGlyph | 0671 |
| kIICore | AGTHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0430.250 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10680.150 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0207.300 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4E7B |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BC48 |
| kIRG_JSource | J13-2F32 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3AC3 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-7537 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-6C32 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4F78 |
| kJapanese | キ イ やわらぐ わらう ああ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:3236 |
| kJIS0213 | 1,15,18 |
| kJapaneseKun | IMASHIME YAHARAGU AA WARAHU |
| kJapaneseOn | KI I |
| kJis1 | 2226 |
| kKangXi | 0207.300 |
| kKarlgren | 129 |
| kKorean | HUY |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0883 |
| kMandarin | xī |
| kMatthews | 2436 |
| kMeyerWempe | 690 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008633 |
| kMorohashi | 04276 |
| kPhonetic | 455 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+16810+30.3.12 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.12 |
| kSBGY | 062.37 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 117.17 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | xī粵hei1 |
| kSpecializedSemanticVariant | U+54A5<kMeyerWempe |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0883 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 393.040:xī |
| kTotalStrokes | 15 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHMT |
| kVietnamese | hi |
| kXerox | 252:260 |
| kXHC1983 | 1226.080:xī |