U+9F55 "齕" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+9F55 "齕" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (Hanzi) that primarily means "to gnaw" or "to nibble," often used in classical or literary contexts to describe the action of biting or chewing with the teeth, particularly in a persistent or grinding manner. It is composed of the radical "齒" (tooth/teeth) on the left side, indicating its semantic connection to dental actions, and the phonetic component "乞" on the right. This character appears in historical texts and traditional vocabulary, though it is not commonly used in modern everyday Chinese writing.

General Properties

Code Point U+9F55
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 齕
HTML Hex Encoding 齕
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE9 0xBD 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding 0x9F55
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00009F55
C/C++/Java Escape \u9f55

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 F1EA
kCCCII 235F7E
kCNS1986 2-6536
kCNS1992 2-6536
kCangjie YUON
kCantonese hat6
kCihaiT 1571.503
kDaeJaweon 2070.120
kDefinition gnaw, bite, nibble
kEACC 235F7E
kFanqie 下没 胡結
kFourCornerCode 2871.7
kGB3 8464
kGSR 0517o
kHangul 흘:1N
kHanYu 74789.090
kHanyuPinyin 74789.090:hé
kIRGDaeJaweon 2070.120
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 74789.090
kIRGKangXi 1532.180
kIRG_GSource G3-7460
kIRG_HSource HB2-F1EA
kIRG_JSource J14-7E6C
kIRG_KPSource KP1-9202
kIRG_KSource K1-752F
kIRG_TSource T2-6536
kJapanese コツ ゴチ ケツ ゲチ キ かじる かむ
kKoreanName 2015
kJIS0213 2,94,76
kJapaneseKun KAMU
kJapaneseOn KOTSU GOCHI KETSU
kJis1 7738
kKangXi 1532.180
kKarlgren 332
kKorean HUL
kMandarin
kMatthews 2087
kMojiJoho MJ030075
kMorohashi 48590
kPhonetic 440
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+19121+211.15.3
kRSUnicode 211.3
kSBGY 482.40 494.08
kSimplifiedVariant "龁" U+9F81 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 831.08
kSMSZD2003Readings hé粵hat6
kTaiwanTelegraph 7878
kTotalStrokes 18
kUnihanCore2020 HMT
kXerox 301:120