U+566C "噬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
噬
U+566C "噬" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to bite" or "to gnaw," often conveying a sense of consuming or devouring with teeth. It is frequently used in classical and modern Chinese texts to describe the action of animals or even metaphorical forces, such as time or erosion, that slowly destroy or engulf something. The character is composed of the mouth radical "口" on the left, indicating oral action, and the phonetic component "筮" on the right, which contributes to its pronunciation. In compound words, it appears in terms like "吞噬" meaning "to swallow up" or "to engulf," and it carries a nuanced connotation of relentless or aggressive consumption.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+566C |
| 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 | 噬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 噬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x99 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x566C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000566C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u566c |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | BEBD |
| kCCCII | 21374D |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7046 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7046 |
| kCangjie | RHMO |
| kCantonese | sai6 |
| kCihaiT | 291.502 |
| kCowles | 3822 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0433.010 |
| kDefinition | bite; gnaw; snap at |
| kEACC | 21374D |
| kFanqie | 時制 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6801.8 |
| kGB0 | 4241 |
| kGB1 | 4241 |
| kGradeLevel | 6 |
| kGSR | 0336c |
| kHangul | 서:1N |
| kHanYu | 10692.050 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10692.050:shì |
| kHKGlyph | 0695 |
| kIICore | AGTHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0433.010 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10692.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0210.100 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-4A49 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-BEBD |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5363 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3AD3 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6427 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7046 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5023 |
| kJapanese | ゼイ セイ エイ かむ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:6105 |
| kJapaneseKun | KAMU |
| kJapaneseOn | ZEI |
| kJis0 | 5167 |
| kKangXi | 0210.100 |
| kKorean | SE |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0896 |
| kMandarin | shì |
| kMatthews | 5764 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2618 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008688 |
| kMorohashi | 04382 |
| kNelson | 0997 |
| kPhonetic | 1116 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4438+30.3.13 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.13 |
| kSBGY | 377.41 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 119.17 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | shì粵sai6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0896 |
| kTang | zhiɛ̀i |
| kTGHZ2013 | 338.170:shì |
| kTotalStrokes | 16 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJMT |
| kVietnamese | phè |
| kXerox | 267:151 |
| kXHC1983 | 1053.040:shì |