U+5693 "嚓" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+5693 "嚓" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as an onomatopoeic word, often used to represent a sharp, cracking, or scratching sound, such as the noise of breaking something or a sudden snap. In modern Chinese usage, it appears in words like "咔嚓" (kā chā), which mimics the sound of scissors cutting, a twig breaking, or a camera shutter clicking. The character is composed of the radical "口" (mouth, indicating sound or speech) and the phonetic component "察" (chá), reflecting its sound-based meaning. It is classified as a Han character and is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block in the Unicode standard.

General Properties

Code Point	U+5693
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	嚓
HTML Hex Encoding	嚓
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x9A 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding	0x5693
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00005693
C/C++/Java Escape	\u5693

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	ECC0
kCCCII	217325
kCNS1986	2-5C4C
kCNS1992	2-5C4C
kCangjie	RJBF
kCantonese	caat3
kDefinition	a cracking or snapping sound
kEACC	217325
kFourCornerCode	6309.1
kGB0	6474
kGB1	6474
kHanYu	10697.150
kHanyuPinyin	10697.150:cā,chā
kIICore	BGTM
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10697.150
kIRGKangXi	0212.191
kIRG_GSource	G0-606A
kIRG_HSource	HB2-ECC0
kIRG_KSource	K2-2926
kIRG_TSource	T2-5C4C
kIRG_VSource	V1-502C
kTGH	2013:6236
kKangXi	0212.191
kMandarin	cā
kPhonetic	45*
kRSUnicode	30.14
kSMSZD2003Index	121.07
kSMSZD2003Readings	cā粵caat3 chā粵caat3
kTGHZ2013	030.020:cā 034.080:chā
kTotalStrokes	17
kUnihanCore2020	GHMT
kVietnamese	xát
kXerox	317:314
kXHC1983	0098.030:cā 0111.080:chā