U+56BC "嚼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
嚼
U+56BC "嚼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to chew" or "to masticate," often used in the context of eating or grinding food with the teeth. It is composed of the radical 口 (mouth) on the left, indicating its association with the mouth, and the phonetic component 爵 on the right, which hints at its pronunciation in Mandarin as "jué" or "jiáo." This character appears in everyday vocabulary such as 咀嚼 (jǔjué), meaning "to chew thoroughly," and is also used metaphorically to describe pondering or ruminating over ideas, much like chewing on a thought.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+56BC |
| 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 | 嚼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 嚼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x9A 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x56BC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000056BC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u56bc |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C45A |
| kCCCII | 21375F |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7965 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7965 |
| kCangjie | RBWI |
| kCantonese | zoek3 |
| kCihaiT | 294.202 |
| kCowles | 4521 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0437.080 |
| kDefinition | prattle, be glib |
| kEACC | 21375F |
| kFanqie | 在爵 |
| kFenn | 851D |
| kFennIndex | 49.05 51.04 121.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6204.6 |
| kGB0 | 2932 |
| kGB1 | 2932 |
| kGradeLevel | 4 |
| kHangul | 작:0N |
| kHanYu | 10704.080 |
| kHanyuPinlu | jué(15) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10704.080:jué,jiáo |
| kHKGlyph | 0709 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0437.080 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10704.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0214.180 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-3D40 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C45A |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5370 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E6C6 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6D44 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7965 |
| kJapanese | シャク ザク ショウ ジョウ かむ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kTGH | 2013:3479 |
| kJapaneseKun | KAMU |
| kJapaneseOn | SHAKU |
| kJis0 | 5180 |
| kKangXi | 0214.180 |
| kKorean | CAK |
| kLau | 1387 1525 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0920 |
| kMandarin | jué |
| kMatthews | 1180 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3321 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008778 MJ008778:E0101 MJ008779:E0102 |
| kMorohashi | 04602 04602:E0101 |
| kNelson | 1016 |
| kPhonetic | 105 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4451+30.3.18 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.18 |
| kSBGY | 503.11 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 122.09 122.13 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | jiáo粵zoek3 jué粵zoek3 jiào粵ziu6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0920 |
| kTang | dzhiɑk |
| kTGHZ2013 | 169.110:jiáo 171.160:jiào 189.130:jué |
| kTotalStrokes | 20 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kXerox | 255:242 |
| kXHC1983 | 0567.060:jiáo 0573.010:jiào 0619.040:jué |