U+566F "噯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+566F "噯" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (Hanzi) traditionally pronounced as "ǎi" in Mandarin, which functions as an interjection expressing surprise, regret, or a gentle reminder, similar to "alas" or "oh" in English. It can also be used as a verb meaning to belch or sigh, and in classical texts, it appears as a phonetic component in various compounds. This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block and is primarily used in written Chinese, though it is less common in modern everyday usage and often replaced by simpler alternatives.

General Properties

Code Point U+566F
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 噯
HTML Hex Encoding 噯
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x99 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding 0x566F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000566F
C/C++/Java Escape \u566f

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

kBigFive BEBC
kCCCII 21374B
kCNS1986 1-7045
kCNS1992 1-7045
kCangjie RBBE
kCantonese oi2
kCihaiT 292.203
kCowles 3097
kDaeJaweon 0433.100
kDefinition interjection; exclamation
kEACC 21374B
kFenn 411G
kFennIndex 1.11 2.05 2.07
kFourCornerCode 6204.7
kGB1 6440
kHangul 애:1N
kHanYu 10693.040
kHanyuPinyin 10693.040:ǎi,ài,āi
kHKGlyph 0694
kIICore ATH
kIRGDaeJaweon 0433.100
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10693.040
kIRGKangXi 0210.220
kIRG_GSource G1-6048
kIRG_HSource HB1-BEBC
kIRG_JSource J13-2F37
kIRG_KPSource KP1-3AE4
kIRG_KSource K1-6657
kIRG_TSource T1-7045
kIRG_VSource V1-5024
kJapanese アイ ガイ おくび
kKoreanName 2015
kJIS0213 1,15,23
kJapaneseKun IKI
kJapaneseOn AI GAI
kJis1 2248
kKangXi 0210.220
kKarlgren 3
kKorean AY
kMandarin āi
kMatthews 10
kMeyerWempe 2144
kMojiJoho MJ008691
kMorohashi 04394
kNelson 1002
kPhonetic 994
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+14406+30.3.13
kRSUnicode 30.13
kSimplifiedVariant "嗳" U+55F3 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 120.03
kSMSZD2003Readings ài粵oi2 ǎi粵oi2
kTaiwanTelegraph 0897
kTotalStrokes 16
kUnihanCore2020 HMT
kVietnamese áy
kXerox 267:267
kXHC1983 0003.022:āi 0003.161:ǎi 0005.041:ài