U+5699 "嚙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
嚙
U+5699 "嚙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to gnaw," "to bite," or "to nibble," often used in classical and modern texts to describe the action of rodents or other animals chewing through hard objects. It is composed of the "mouth" radical (口) on the left and a phonetic component on the right, which provides a clue to its pronunciation in various East Asian languages, such as "niè" in Mandarin Chinese and "kamu" as a related root in Japanese. This character appears in literary contexts, such as idioms or descriptions of wear and tear, and shares semantic overlap with simplified forms like 啮, though the traditional and unsimplified variant retains its historical complexity.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5699 |
| 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 | 嚙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 嚙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x9A 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5699 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005699 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5699 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | EFBF |
| kCCCII | 217345 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-614B |
| kCNS1992 | 2-614B |
| kCangjie | RYMU |
| kCantonese | ngit6 |
| kCihaiT | 293.105 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0435.240 |
| kDefinition | bite, gnaw |
| kEACC | 217345 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6107.2 |
| kGB1 | 3686 |
| kHangul | 교:1N |
| kHanYu | 10699.140 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10699.140:yǎo,niè |
| kIICore | CT |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0435.240 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10699.140 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0212.410 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-4476 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-EFBF |
| kIRG_JSource | J13-2F3A |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3AF5 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-5A34 |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-614B |
| kJapanese | ゴウ ギョウ かむ かじる |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJIS0213 | 1,15,26 |
| kJapaneseKun | KAJIRU KAMI |
| kJapaneseOn | GOU |
| kJis1 | 2258 |
| kKangXi | 0212.410 |
| kKorean | KYO |
| kMandarin | niè |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008740 |
| kMorohashi | 04516 |
| kNelson | 1012 |
| kPhonetic | 157 445 965A |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+7654+30.3.15 C+7654+211.15.3 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.15 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "啮" U+556E CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 121.13 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | niè粵ngit6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0909 |
| kTotalStrokes | 18 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJMT |
| kXerox | 302:147 |
| kXHC1983 | 0835.022:niè |