U+56C5 "囅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

囅

U+56C5 "囅" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and historically significant Chinese character representing the idea of a smile or to smile, specifically conveying a sense of grinning or laughing with a joyful expression. Its structure combines the outer enclosure radical "囗" (enclosure) with the inner component "單" (single or simple), though its usage is extremely uncommon in modern Chinese, appearing mainly in classical texts or as a variant of characters like "囅" (which is also pronounced "chǎn" in Mandarin). This character is classified as a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideograph, meaning it is encoded for use across these languages, but it holds little practical application in contemporary communication, serving instead as a linguistic artifact of older written forms.

General Properties

Code Point	U+56C5
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	囅
HTML Hex Encoding	囅
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x9B 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding	0x56C5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000056C5
C/C++/Java Escape	\u56c5

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

kBigFive	F6D8
kCCCII	217360
kCNS1986	2-6D46
kCNS1992	2-6D46
kCangjie	RJSTV
kCantonese	cin2
kCihaiT	294.502
kDaeJaweon	0438.080
kDefinition	smile
kEACC	217360
kFanqie	丑善
kFourCornerCode	6753.2
kGB1	5770
kHanYu	10707.170
kHanyuPinyin	10707.170:chǎn
kIRGDaeJaweon	0438.080
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10707.170
kIRGKangXi	0215.060
kIRG_GSource	G1-5966
kIRG_HSource	HB2-F6D8
kIRG_JSource	J14-2453
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-3B1D
kIRG_KSource	K2-293F
kIRG_TSource	T2-6D46
kJapanese	テンテツテチ
kJIS0213	2,04,51
kJapaneseOn	TEN TETSU TECHI
kJis1	2274
kKangXi	0215.060
kKorean	CHEN CHEL
kMandarin	chǎn
kMatthews	154
kMojiJoho	MJ008790
kMorohashi	04625
kPhonetic	187
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+17408+30.3.19
kRSUnicode	30.19
kSimplifiedVariant	"冁" U+5181 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	122.14
kSMSZD2003Readings	chǎn粵cin2
kTaiwanTelegraph	0912
kTotalStrokes	22
kUnihanCore2020	HMT
kXerox	302:153
kXHC1983	0119.051:chǎn