U+5690 "嚐" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5690 "嚐" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that carries the fundamental meaning of "to taste" or "to sample food," often used in the context of carefully trying a flavor to assess its quality. This ideograph is composed of the "mouth" radical (口) on the left, indicating the action of eating or speaking, and a phonetic component on the right derived from the character "嘗" (cháng), which also means "to taste" or "to experience." In classical and literary Chinese, "嚐" appears in expressions related to savoring dishes, testing for bitterness or sweetness, and metaphorically for tasting life's experiences. It is distinguished from the simplified form "尝" used in modern Mainland China, as "嚐" remains in use in traditional Chinese communities such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau. The character's historical usage can be found in ancient texts and poetry, where it evokes a careful and deliberate act of sensory evaluation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5690
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	嚐
HTML Hex Encoding	嚐
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x9A 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5690
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005690
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5690

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	C07C
kCCCII	213752
kCNS1986	1-7347
kCNS1992	1-7347
kCangjie	RFBA
kCantonese	soeng4
kDefinition	taste
kEACC	213752
kFourCornerCode	6906.1
kHanYu	10696.100
kHanyuPinyin	10696.100:cháng
kIICore	ATM
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10696.100
kIRGKangXi	0212.191
kIRG_GSource	GE-3424
kIRG_HSource	HB1-C07C
kIRG_JSource	JMJ-008732
kIRG_KSource	K2-2924
kIRG_TSource	T1-7347
kJapanese	ショウ
kJapaneseKun	NAMERU
kJapaneseOn	SHOU
kKangXi	0212.191
kMandarin	cháng
kMojiJoho	MJ008732
kMorohashi	04494
kPhonetic	1167A
kRSUnicode	30.14
kSimplifiedVariant	"𰈇" U+30207 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	121.08
kTotalStrokes	17
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	274:054
kXHC1983	0120.122:cháng