U+56A1 "嚡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
嚡
U+56A1 "嚡" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (Hanzi) that is used primarily in the Cantonese and some other Chinese dialects, where it functions as a colloquial or dialectal variant. It is composed of the radical 口 (mouth) on the left and the phonetic component 鞋 (xié, meaning "shoe") on the right, suggesting a pronunciation similar to "haai" or "hai" in Cantonese. In context, this character often represents a slang or interjection word meaning "loud" or "noisy," and it can also be used as a variant of other characters such as 嗐, reflecting its role in informal or regional written communication rather than standard Mandarin usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+56A1 |
| 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 | 嚡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 嚡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x9A 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x56A1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000056A1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u56a1 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCangjie | RTJG |
| kCantonese | haai4 |
| kCheungBauer | 030/15;RTJG;haai4 |
| kCheungBauerIndex | 388.09 |
| kCowles | 914 |
| kDefinition | (Cant.) rough; interjection |
| kHanYu | 10698.161 |
| kIICore | CH |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10698.161 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0213.171 |
| kIRG_GSource | GH-1238 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-8AC5 |
| kKangXi | 0213.171 |
| kLau | 1088 |
| kMandarin | hai |
| kMeyerWempe | 619 |
| kPseudoGB1 | 9222 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.15 |
| kTotalStrokes | 18 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | H |