U+565B "噛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+565B "噛" CJK Unified Ideograph is a Chinese/Japanese kanji character primarily used in the Japanese writing system. It is a variant form of the character 嚙 (or 咬) and carries the meaning of "to bite," "to chew," or "to gnaw," often associated with the action of using teeth to crush or cut food. In Japanese, it is read as "kamu" in its kun'yomi and "kō" or "gō" in its on'yomi, appearing in words like "噛む" (to bite) and "噛みつく" (to bite at). This character belongs to the Han unification block and has a total of 15 strokes, reflecting its composition of the mouth radical (口) and phonetic components that trace back to ancient Chinese forms.

General Properties

Code Point U+565B
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 噛
HTML Hex Encoding 噛
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x99 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding 0x565B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000565B
C/C++/Java Escape \u565b

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

kCangjie XXRYM
kCantonese ngit6
kDefinition bite, gnaw
kFourCornerCode 6107.2
kHanYu 10682.171
kIICore AJ
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10682.171
kIRGKangXi 0209.151
kIRG_GSource GE-337D
kIRG_JSource J0-337A
kJapanese ゴウ ギョウ かみ かじる かむ
kJapaneseKun KAJIRU KAMI
kJapaneseOn GOU
kJis0 1990
kKangXi 0209.151
kMandarin niè
kMojiJoho MJ008671
kMorohashi H071
kNelson 1012
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+1496+30.3.12 C+1496+211.12.3
kRSUnicode 30.12
kTotalStrokes 15
kUnihanCore2020 J