U+56B8 "嚸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+56B8 "嚸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare Chinese character that falls within the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) Unified Ideographs block, which encompasses a vast set of logographic symbols used across these languages. This specific character is not commonly used in modern standard Chinese or Japanese, and its meaning is often described as a phonetic or dialectal component, sometimes associated with an obscure sense of "a little" or "a small amount" in certain regional usages, though it may also appear as a variant or component in historical texts. Its structure combines the mouth radical (口) with the phonetic element "點" (diǎn, meaning dot or point), suggesting a link to spoken language or sound representation. Due to its rarity, accurate definitions and usage examples are limited, and it may not be present in many mainstream digital fonts or dictionaries without specialized support.

General Properties

Code Point U+56B8
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 嚸
HTML Hex Encoding 嚸
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE5 0x9A 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding 0x56B8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000056B8
C/C++/Java Escape \u56b8

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

kCNS1986 E-6726
kCNS1992 3-6726
kCangjie RWFR
kCantonese dim2
kHanYu 10704.021
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 10704.021
kIRGKangXi 0214.151
kIRG_GSource GE-342D
kIRG_TSource T3-6726
kKangXi 0214.151
kMandarin diǎn
kRSUnicode 30.17
kSimplifiedVariant "𰈊" U+3020A CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes 20
kXerox 324:302