U+542C "" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+542C "" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to listen" or "to hear," and it is widely used in both simplified Chinese and Japanese scripts. Its composition combines the radical for "mouth" on the left, representing speech or sound, with the element for "斤" on the right, which historically contributed to its phonetic pronunciation. In modern usage, this character appears in common words like "听见" (tīngjiàn) meaning "to hear" and "听讲" (tīngjiǎng) meaning "to listen to a lecture," and it plays a fundamental role in everyday communication, education, and written texts across East Asian languages.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
听
HTML Hex Encoding
听
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0x90 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding
0x542C
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000542C
C/C++/Java Escape
\u542c

Unihan Properties

kBigFive
A776
kCCCII
216F28
kCNS1986
1-4958
kCNS1992
1-4958
kCangjie
RHML
kCantonese
ting1
kCihaiT
262.201
kCowles
4345
kDaeJaweon
0396.020
kDefinition
hear; understand; obey, comply; one pound
kEACC
27527B
kFanqie
宜引 牛謹
kFennIndex
527.03
kFourCornerCode
6202.1
kGB0
4493
kHangul
은:1N
kHanYu
10591.020
kHanyuPinlu
tīng(2028) ting(48)
kHanyuPinyin
10591.020:yǐn,yí,tīng
kIICore
AGT
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
10591.020
kIRG_GSource
G0-4C7D
kIRG_HSource
HB1-A776
kIRG_JSource
J0-5261
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-3966
kIRG_KSource
K1-6A2E
kIRG_TSource
T1-4958
kIRG_VSource
V1-4E58
kJapanese
キン ギン テイ チョウ ギツ ゴチ ギ ゲ ポンド わらう
kKoreanName
2015
kTGH
2013:739
kJapaneseKun
WARAU PONDO
kJapaneseOn
KIN GIN
kJis0
5065
kKangXi
0178.160
kKorean
UN
kLau
3049 3061 3062
kMainlandTelegraph
8126
kMandarin
tīng
kMatthews
6402
kMeyerWempe
3052
kMojiJoho
MJ008101
kMorohashi
03352
kPhonetic
571 1343
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+4342+30.3.4 C+4342+69.4.3
kRSUnicode
30.4
kSBGY
276.20 280.08
kSemanticVariant
U+807D<kLau,kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index
95.22
kSpecializedSemanticVariant
U+807D<kFenn
kTaiwanTelegraph
8203
kTGHZ2013
367.140:tīng
kTotalStrokes
7
kUnihanCore2020
GHJMT
kVietnamese
thính
kXHC1983
1145.030:tīng