U+5413 "吓" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+5413 "吓" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used primarily in Simplified Chinese writing, where it functions as a verb meaning "to scare" or "to frighten" and is commonly found in words like "吓唬" (xià hu) meaning "to intimidate" or "to threaten." In Traditional Chinese, its counterpart is the character "嚇," and historically it has also served as a rare variant for a character meaning "to sigh" or as a phonetic component in some contexts. The character is composed of the radical "口" (mouth) on the left, suggesting speech or sound, and the phonetic component "下" (xià) on the right, indicating its pronunciation as xià in Mandarin. It is classified under the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block in the Unicode standard, making it available for digital text processing across East Asian languages.