U+56B9 "嚹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
嚹
U+56B9 "嚹" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rarely used Chinese character that primarily functions as a dialectal or colloquial particle, often encountered in Cantonese or other regional varieties of Chinese, where it can serve as a phonetic loan to represent a final particle indicating emphasis, a question, or a casual imperative tone, depending on context. Its modern usage is largely restricted to informal writing, such as in text messages or online chats within Cantonese-speaking communities, and it lacks a common standalone meaning in standard Mandarin, making it a specialized typographic element rather than a mainstream character.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+56B9 |
| 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 | 嚹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 嚹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x9A 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x56B9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000056B9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u56b9 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCNS1986 | E-6727 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-6727 |
| kCangjie | ROUD |
| kCantonese | laa3 |
| kCheungBauer | 030/17;ROUD;laa4 |
| kCheungBauerIndex | 392.02 |
| kCowles | 2150 |
| kDefinition | (Cant.) a particle implying completion, certainty, or urgency |
| kHanYu | 10704.030 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10704.030:la |
| kIICore | CH |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10704.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0214.151 |
| kIRG_GSource | GH-1102 |
| kIRG_HSource | H-9C54 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-6727 |
| kKangXi | 0214.151 |
| kLau | 1756 |
| kMandarin | lá |
| kMeyerWempe | 1427 |
| kPseudoGB1 | 9223 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.17 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+21148<kMeyerWempe |
| kTotalStrokes | 20 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | H |
| kXerox | 324:304 |