U+5688 "嚈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
嚈
U+5688 "嚈" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (Hanzi) that is historically used in transcribed foreign names, most notably as the first character in the name "嚈哒" (Yanda), which refers to the Hephthalite Empire, a nomadic confederation that existed in Central Asia during late antiquity. This character is read as "yàn" in Mandarin and carries the radical "口" (mouth), though it does not have a common independent meaning in modern standard Chinese and appears primarily in ancient or transliterated texts. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard preserves this rare ideograph for digital use in historical and linguistic contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5688 |
| 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 | 嚈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 嚈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x9A 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5688 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005688 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5688 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 217330 |
| kCangjie | RMAK |
| kCihaiT | 292.601 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0434.320 |
| kGB3 | 2193 |
| kHanYu | 10696.030 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10696.030:yè |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0434.320 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10696.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0211.410 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-357D |
| kIRG_JSource | J14-244B |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3AF3 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-287D |
| kIRG_TSource | T4-5574 |
| kIRG_VSource | V0-335F |
| kJapanese | ヨウ |
| kJIS0213 | 2,04,43 |
| kJapaneseOn | YOU |
| kJis1 | 2254 |
| kKangXi | 0211.410 |
| kMandarin | yè |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008723 |
| kMorohashi | 04463 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+17403+30.3.14 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.14 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "𫩫" U+2BA6B CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kTotalStrokes | 17 |
| kVietnamese | ướm |