U+5686 "嚆" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5686 "嚆" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and archaic Chinese character that primarily refers to a loud, piercing shout or a wailing sound, often associated with the dawn or the first cry of a person or animal. In classical Chinese texts, it appears in the compound "嚆矢" (hāo shǐ), which metaphorically means the beginning or origin of something, similar to the English notion of a "starting signal" or "first shot," originating from the literal image of an arrow whistling through the air at the start of a battle. This character is composed of the radical "口" (mouth) and the phonetic component "蒿" (hāo, meaning wormwood or artemisia), and while it is seldom used in modern everyday language, it retains significance in literary and historical contexts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5686
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	嚆
HTML Hex Encoding	嚆
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x9A 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5686
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005686
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5686

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	ECC3
kCCCII	217334
kCNS1986	2-5C4F
kCNS1992	2-5C4F
kCangjie	RTYB
kCantonese	hou1
kCihaiT	292.506
kDaeJaweon	0434.280
kDefinition	give forth sound, make noise
kEACC	217334
kFanqie	許交
kFourCornerCode	6402.7
kGB0	6467
kGB1	6467
kGSR	1129b'
kHangul	효:0N
kHanYu	10688.100
kHanyuPinyin	10688.100:hāo
kIICore	AGJKP
kIRGDaeJaweon	0434.280
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10688.100
kIRGKangXi	0211.360
kIRG_GSource	G0-6063
kIRG_HSource	HB2-ECC3
kIRG_JSource	J0-5365
kIRG_KPSource	KP0-F4D5
kIRG_KSource	K0-7C77
kIRG_TSource	T2-5C4F
kIRG_VSource	V2-8B2E
kJapanese	コウ キョウ さけぶ
kKoreanName	2015
kTGH	2013:6088
kJapaneseKun	SAKEBU
kJapaneseOn	KOU
kJis0	5169
kKangXi	0211.360
kKorean	HYO
kMainlandTelegraph	8178
kMandarin	hāo
kMatthews	2082
kMojiJoho	MJ008720 MJ008720:E0101 MJ008721:E0102
kMorohashi	04458:E0102
kNelson	1003
kPhonetic	480
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+4440+30.3.13
kRSUnicode	30.14
kSMSZD2003Index	121.04
kSMSZD2003Readings	hāo粵hou1
kTaiwanTelegraph	8193
kTGHZ2013	132.040:hāo
kTotalStrokes	16
kUnihanCore2020	GHJKMPT
kXerox	274:250
kXHC1983	0443.070:hāo