U+5644 "噄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+5644 "噄" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (Hanzi) that is rarely used in modern standard Mandarin, but it appears in classical or literary contexts, often functioning as a variant of the more common character 吃 (chī), meaning "to eat." In classical texts, 噄 can also convey the sense of "to bite" or "to gnaw," and it is sometimes associated with onomatopoeic expressions for the sound of eating or chewing. Its structure combines the "mouth" radical (口, kǒu) on the left and a phonetic component on the right, following the typical form of Chinese logograms where meaning and sound are partially encoded. Due to its obsolescence, it is primarily of interest to scholars of historical Chinese linguistics, calligraphy, or paleography rather than everyday communication.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
噄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
噄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE5 0x99 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x5644 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00005644 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u5644 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII |
21724F |
| kCNS1986 |
E-4B3E |
| kCNS1992 |
3-4B3E |
| kCangjie |
RQHF |
| kCantonese |
hek3 |
| kDaeJaweon |
0431.060 |
| kGB5 |
2536 |
| kHanYu |
10680.050 |
| kIRGDaeJaweon |
0431.060 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian |
10680.050 |
| kIRGKangXi |
0208.100 |
| kIRG_GSource |
G5-3944 |
| kIRG_JSource |
J1-3641 |
| kIRG_KSource |
K2-2860 |
| kIRG_TSource |
T3-4B3E |
| kJapanese |
キツ |
| kJapaneseOn |
KITSU |
| kJis1 |
2233 |
| kKangXi |
0208.100 |
| kMandarin |
chī |
| kMojiJoho |
MJ008645 MJ008645:E0101 MJ008646:E0102 |
| kMorohashi |
04290 04290:E0101 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 |
C+21300+30.3.12 |
| kRSUnicode |
30.12 |
| kTotalStrokes |
15 |