U+56B6 "嚶" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
嚶
U+56B6 "嚶" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character traditionally pronounced as ying in Mandarin and used to describe the chirping or singing of birds, often in poetic or literary contexts. It is commonly found in classical Chinese texts and compound words, such as "嚶鳴" (ying ming), which evokes the harmonious sound of birds calling to one another. The character belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph block, reflecting its shared use across East Asian writing systems where it carries similar phonetic and semantic meanings.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+56B6 |
| 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 | 嚶 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 嚶 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x9A 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x56B6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000056B6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u56b6 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C458 |
| kCCCII | 21375B |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7963 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7963 |
| kCangjie | RBCV |
| kCantonese | jing1 |
| kCihaiT | 294.102 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0437.020 |
| kDefinition | seek friends; also used in names; the call of a bird |
| kEACC | 21375B |
| kFanqie | 烏莖 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6604.4 |
| kGB1 | 6451 |
| kGSR | 0814f |
| kHangul | 앵:1N |
| kHanYu | 10704.010 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10704.010:yīng |
| kHKGlyph | 0707 |
| kIICore | ATHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0437.020 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10704.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0214.110 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-6053 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C458 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-536D |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3B0F |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-666C |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7963 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-5034 |
| kJapanese | オウ ヨウ なく |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | NAKU |
| kJapaneseOn | OU |
| kJis0 | 5177 |
| kKangXi | 0214.110 |
| kKorean | AYNG |
| kMandarin | yīng |
| kMatthews | 7458 |
| kMeyerWempe | 33a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008775 |
| kMorohashi | 04592 |
| kPhonetic | 1583A |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4448+30.3.17 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.17 |
| kSBGY | 188.51 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "嘤" U+5624 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 122.07 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | yǐng粵jing1 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0919 |
| kTotalStrokes | 20 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJMT |
| kVietnamese | inh |
| kXerox | 266:064 |