U+56C0 "囀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
囀
U+56C0 "囀" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and complex Chinese character that primarily means "to sing" or "to warble" of birds, and it can also refer to speech that is fluent or melodious. Its structure combines the radical "口" (mouth) with the phonetic component "轉" (zhuan, meaning to turn or change), reflecting an idea of sound or words that twist and flow gracefully. Historically, this character is used in classical Chinese poetry and literature to describe the harmonious songs of birds, and it appears in the official Unihan database with a traditional form, as it is not commonly employed in modern everyday writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+56C0 |
| 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 | 囀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 囀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x9B 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x56C0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000056C0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u56c0 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C4DA |
| kCCCII | 21375C |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7A65 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7A65 |
| kCangjie | RJJI |
| kCantonese | zyun2 |
| kCihaiT | 294.302 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0437.170 |
| kDefinition | sing, chirp, warble, twitter |
| kEACC | 21375C |
| kFanqie | 知戀 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6504.3 |
| kGB1 | 6389 |
| kHangul | 전:1N |
| kHanYu | 10705.180 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10705.180:zhuàn |
| kHKGlyph | 0711 |
| kIICore | ATJHM |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0437.170 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10705.180 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0214.300 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-5F79 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C4DA |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5373 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3B12 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6B75 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7A65 |
| kJapanese | テン さえずる |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | SAEZURU |
| kJapaneseOn | TEN |
| kJis0 | 5183 |
| kKangXi | 0214.300 |
| kKorean | CEN |
| kMandarin | zhuàn |
| kMatthews | 1432 |
| kMeyerWempe | 372a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008784 MJ008784:E0102 MJ008783:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 04614:E0103 |
| kNelson | 1017 |
| kPhonetic | 272 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4454+30.3.18 V+14116+30.3.18 V+20096+30.3.11 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.18 |
| kSBGY | 411.60 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "啭" U+556D CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 122.11 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | zhuàn粵zyun2 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0921 |
| kTang | djiuɛ̀n |
| kTotalStrokes | 21 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJMT |
| kXerox | 273:114 |
| kXHC1983 | 1520.021:zhuàn |