U+56A9 "嚩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+56A9 "嚩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character primarily encountered in Buddhist scripture transliterations, where it represents a Sanskrit syllable or sound, often corresponding to "va" or "ba" in phonetic contexts. Its structure combines the mouth radical (口) on the left, indicating its connection to speech or sound, with the complex phonetic component (縛) on the right. In modern Chinese and Japanese, this character is extremely uncommon, appearing almost exclusively in specialized religious texts or historical transcriptions rather than in everyday written language.

General Properties

Code Point	U+56A9
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	嚩
HTML Hex Encoding	嚩
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x9A 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding	0x56A9
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000056A9
C/C++/Java Escape	\u56a9

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

kCCCII	217351
kCangjie	XRVFI
kCantonese	bok3
kCihaiT	293.302
kGB3	2336
kHanYu	10703.170
kHanyuPinyin	10703.170:mó
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10703.170
kIRGKangXi	0213.280
kIRG_GSource	G3-3744
kIRG_JSource	J13-2F3C
kIRG_KSource	K2-2933
kIRG_TSource	T4-5F4D
kJapanese	ハク
kJIS0213	1,15,28
kJapaneseKun	NOROI
kJapaneseOn	HAKU
kJis1	2266
kKangXi	0213.280
kMandarin	mó
kMojiJoho	MJ008759
kMorohashi	04555
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+16812+30.3.16
kRSUnicode	30.16
kSimplifiedVariant	"𰈶" U+30236 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes	19