U+778C "瞌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+778C "瞌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means to doze off or feel sleepy, often used in compound words like "瞌睡" (kē shuì) meaning drowsy or to nod off. It combines the radical for eye (目) with the phonetic component "盍" (hé), visually suggesting the act of the eyes closing or drooping with fatigue. This character appears in written Chinese and other East Asian scripts such as Japanese and Korean, where it carries similar connotations of sleepiness and is used in both literary and everyday contexts to describe the state of being on the verge of falling asleep.

General Properties

Code Point U+778C
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 瞌
HTML Hex Encoding 瞌
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE7 0x9E 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0x778C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000778C
C/C++/Java Escape \u778c

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 BD4F
kCCCII 214D6A
kCNS1986 1-6D78
kCNS1992 1-6D78
kCangjie BUGIT
kCantonese hap6
kCihaiT 953.401
kDaeJaweon 1228.020
kDefinition doze off; sleepy
kEACC 214D6A
kFanqie 苦曷
kFenn 45K
kFennIndex 253.03
kFourCornerCode 6401.7
kGB0 7807
kGB1 7807
kHanYu 42505.050
kHanyuPinlu kē(11)
kHanyuPinyin 42505.050:kē
kHKGlyph 2775
kIICore AGTHM
kIRGDaeJaweon 1228.020
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 42505.050
kIRGKangXi 0814.080
kIRG_GSource G0-6E27
kIRG_HSource HB1-BD4F
kIRG_JSource J1-4F2D
kIRG_KPSource KP1-5EBE
kIRG_KSource K2-4B5F
kIRG_TSource T1-6D78
kJapanese コウ
kTGH 2013:5902
kJapaneseOn KOU
kJis1 4713
kKangXi 0814.080
kMainlandTelegraph 4209
kMandarin
kMatthews 3404
kMojiJoho MJ018295
kMorohashi 23570
kPhonetic 508
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+19591+109.5.10
kRSUnicode 109.10
kSMSZD2003Index 464.02
kSMSZD2003Readings kē粵hap6
kTaiwanTelegraph 8853
kTGHZ2013 195.130:kē
kTotalStrokes 15
kUnihanCore2020 GHMT
kXerox 264:270
kXHC1983 0638.020:kē