U+56D3 "囓" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

囓

U+56D3 "囓" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Han character that appears in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) Unified Ideographs block, representing a concept related to gnawing, biting, or nibbling, often used in East Asian classical texts and modern context to denote the action of rodents or other creatures chewing persistently. Its composition combines the mouth radical "口" with the phonetic component "齧" (niè), emphasizing the oral action involved, and it is primarily encountered in literary or specialized vocabulary rather than everyday usage.

General Properties

Code Point	U+56D3
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	囓
HTML Hex Encoding	囓
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE5 0x9B 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding	0x56D3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000056D3
C/C++/Java Escape	\u56d3

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	F8A5
kCCCII	217368
kCNS1986	2-7033
kCNS1992	2-7033
kCangjie	RQHU
kCantonese	ngit6
kCihaiT	294.507
kDaeJaweon	0439.060
kDefinition	gnaw
kEACC	2D7345
kFenn	147K
kFennIndex	362.08
kFourCornerCode	6107.2
kHanYu	10709.050
kHanyuPinyin	10709.050:niè
kIICore	CT
kIRGDaeJaweon	0439.060
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	10709.060
kIRGKangXi	0216.010
kIRG_GSource	GE-3435
kIRG_HSource	HB2-F8A5
kIRG_JSource	J0-5377
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-3B24
kIRG_KSource	K2-2946
kIRG_TSource	T2-7033
kJapanese	ゲツかむ
kJapaneseKun	KAMU
kJapaneseOn	KETSU GETSU
kJis0	5187
kKangXi	0216.010
kKorean	SEL NYEL
kLau	2319 2349
kMandarin	niè
kMatthews	4704
kMeyerWempe	2052
kMojiJoho	MJ008808 MJ008808:E0101 MJ008810:E0102 MJ008809:E0103
kMorohashi	04659 04659:E0101
kPhonetic	965A
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+4458+30.3.21
kRSUnicode	30.21
kSemanticVariant	U+9F67<kLau,kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index	123.07
kSpecializedSemanticVariant	U+9F67<kMeyerWempe
kTaiwanTelegraph	0929
kTang	nget
kTotalStrokes	24
kUnihanCore2020	HJMT
kXerox	274:252