U+9F5A "齚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+9F5A "齚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and historically obscure Chinese character that primarily refers to the action of biting or gnawing, often associated with the teeth or mouth due to its radical component "齒" (tooth). Found in ancient texts and classical Chinese dictionaries, this ideograph appears in contexts describing rough or repeated chewing, sometimes metaphorically extending to persistent criticism or nagging. Its usage in modern Chinese, Japanese, or Korean is extremely limited, making it a niche character primarily of interest to linguists, paleographers, and specialists studying archaic or literary sinographs.

General Properties

Code Point	U+9F5A
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	齚
HTML Hex Encoding	齚
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE9 0xBD 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding	0x9F5A
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00009F5A
C/C++/Java Escape	\u9f5a

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

kCCCII	23602C
kCNS1986	E-5E24
kCNS1992	3-5E24
kCangjie	YUHS
kCantonese	zaak3
kCihaiT	1572.102
kDaeJaweon	2071.170
kDefinition	to chew
kFanqie	鋤陌
kGB3	8473
kHanYu	74791.050
kHanyuPinyin	74791.050:zé
kIRGDaeJaweon	2071.170
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	74791.050
kIRGKangXi	1533.090
kIRG_GSource	G3-7469
kIRG_HSource	H-9F69
kIRG_JSource	J1-6D4A
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-9215
kIRG_KSource	K2-7473
kIRG_TSource	T3-5E24
kJapanese	サク
kJapaneseKun	KAMU
kJapaneseOn	SAKU JAKU SA JA
kJis1	7742
kKangXi	1533.090
kMandarin	zé
kMojiJoho	MJ030081
kMorohashi	48614
kPhonetic	10
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+20053+211.15.5
kRSUnicode	211.5
kSBGY	511.12
kSimplifiedVariant	"𱌬" U+3132C CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kTotalStrokes	20
kUnihanCore2020	H
kXHC1983	1444.081:zé