U+5649 "噉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
噉
U+5649 "噉" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character primarily used in classical and literary contexts, as well as in some modern dialects like Cantonese. It is defined as a verb meaning "to bite" or "to gnaw," often with connotations of consuming food aggressively or ravenously, and it belongs to the "mouth" (口) radical, reflecting its connection to oral actions. In historical texts, it appears in idioms and descriptions of eating or chewing, though it is less common in standard Mandarin, where synonyms like "咬" are more frequently used.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5649 |
| 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 | 噉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 噉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x99 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5649 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005649 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5649 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | E4FC |
| kCCCII | 217257 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-4F64 |
| kCNS1992 | 2-4F64 |
| kCangjie | RMJK |
| kCantonese | gam2 |
| kCheungBauer | 030/11;RMJK;gam2,gum2 |
| kCheungBauerIndex | 376.01 376.02 |
| kCihaiT | 290.503 |
| kCowles | 1753 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0431.140 |
| kDefinition | bite, chew; (Cant.) like this, in this way |
| kEACC | 217257 |
| kFanqie | 徒敢 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6804.0 |
| kHangul | 담:1N |
| kHanYu | 10679.100 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10679.100:dàn |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0431.140 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10679.100 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0208.190 |
| kIRG_GSource | GE-3378 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-E4FC |
| kIRG_JSource | J13-2F33 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3AA7 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-5C74 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-4F64 |
| kIRG_VSource | V2-8B2C |
| kJapanese | タン ダン くらう くらわす くう |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJIS0213 | 1,15,19 |
| kJapaneseKun | KURAU KURAWASU |
| kJapaneseOn | TAN DAN |
| kJis1 | 2235 |
| kKangXi | 0208.190 |
| kKorean | TAM |
| kLau | 839 |
| kMandarin | dàn |
| kMatthews | 6052 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1224 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008653 |
| kMorohashi | 04299 |
| kPhonetic | 651 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+14401+30.3.12 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.12 |
| kSBGY | 332.49 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+35D6<kMatthews U+5556<kMatthews U+5557<kMatthews |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 119.02 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0885 |
| kTang | dhɑ̌m |
| kTotalStrokes | 14 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |
| kXerox | 302:141 |
| kXHC1983 | 0212.012:dàn |