U+56C1 "囁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
囁
U+56C1 "囁" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (traditional form simplified often as 嗫) that belongs to the Han script block and is composed of the "mouth" radical (口) combined with the phonetic component 聶. It primarily means "to whisper" or "to speak in a low voice," and is often used in the compound word "囁嚅" (nièrú), which describes hesitant, indistinct, or mumbling speech. In historical and modern contexts, this character conveys the act of speaking softly or with unwillingness, typically suggesting timidity or secrecy.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+56C1 |
| 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 | 囁 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 囁 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0x9B 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x56C1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000056C1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u56c1 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C4D9 |
| kCCCII | 21375D |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7A64 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7A64 |
| kCangjie | RSJJ |
| kCantonese | zip3 |
| kCihaiT | 294.106 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0437.180 |
| kDefinition | move lips as when speaking; hesitation |
| kEACC | 21375D |
| kFanqie | 而涉 之涉 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6104.1 |
| kGB1 | 6431 |
| kHangul | 섭:1N |
| kHanYu | 10705.120 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10705.120:zhé,niè |
| kHKGlyph | 0710 |
| kIICore | ATJH |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0437.180 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10705.120 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0214.310 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-603F |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C4D9 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-5371 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-3B10 |
| kIRG_KSource | K1-6457 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7A64 |
| kJapanese | ショウ ニョウ ジョウ セツ ささやく |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | SASAYAKU |
| kJapaneseOn | SHOU |
| kJis0 | 5181 |
| kKangXi | 0214.310 |
| kKorean | SEP YEP |
| kMandarin | niè |
| kMatthews | 4706 |
| kMeyerWempe | 307a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ008785 MJ008785:E0102 MJ008786:E0103 MJ008787:E0104 |
| kMorohashi | 04615:E0104 |
| kNelson | 1018 |
| kPhonetic | 979 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+4452+30.3.18 V+13527+30.3.18 |
| kRSUnicode | 30.18 |
| kSBGY | 540.03 540.06 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+8B98<kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "嗫" U+55EB CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 122.12 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | niè粵zip3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0922 |
| kTotalStrokes | 21 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJMT |
| kXerox | 273:357 |
| kXHC1983 | 0834.061:niè |