U+542E "吮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+542E "吮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to suck" or "to sip," often used in contexts involving the action of drawing liquid into the mouth, such as sucking on a straw or nursing. It is composed of the mouth radical (口) on the left, indicating an oral action, and the phonetic component (允) on the right. This character appears in classical and modern Chinese texts, including medical references to sucking venom or herbal remedies. In Japanese, it is used in similar senses, such as in the word "suck" (吸う) though less commonly, and it is recognized in both traditional and simplified Chinese writing systems.
General Properties
Code Point
U+542E
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
吮
HTML Hex Encoding
吮
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0x90 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding
0x542E
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000542E
C/C++/Java Escape
\u542e
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
A76D
kCCCII
21355E
kCNS1986
1-494F
kCNS1992
1-494F
kCangjie
RIHU
kCantonese
syun5
kCihaiT
263.301
kDaeJaweon
0396.060
kDefinition
suck with mouth, sip, lick
kEACC
21355E
kFanqie
食尹 徂兖
kFenn
869H
kFennIndex
562.05
kFourCornerCode
6301.0
kGB0
4317
kGB1
4317
kGradeLevel
2
kGSR
0468m
kHangul
전:1N
kHanYu
10597.040
kHanyuPinyin
10597.040:shǔn
kHKGlyph
0531
kIICore
AGTHM
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
10597.040
kIRG_GSource
G0-4B31
kIRG_HSource
HB1-A76D
kIRG_JSource
J0-5264
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-3960
kIRG_KSource
K1-6B74
kIRG_TSource
T1-494F
kIRG_VSource
V2-8A66
kJapanese
セン エン シュン ジュン すう
kKoreanName
2015
kTGH
2013:752
kJapaneseKun
SUU
kJapaneseOn
SEN SHUN
kJis0
5068
kKangXi
0178.200
kKarlgren
293
kKorean
CEN
kLau
2929
kMainlandTelegraph
0700
kMandarin
shǔn
kMatthews
5929
kMeyerWempe
2774a
kMojiJoho
MJ008103
kMorohashi
03356
kPhonetic
1444
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+4345+30.3.4
kRSUnicode
30.4
kSBGY
278.16 293.16
kSMSZD2003Index
93.02
kSMSZD2003Readings
shǔn粵syun5
kTaiwanTelegraph
0700
kTang
jhuǐn
kTGHZ2013
345.020:shǔn
kTotalStrokes
7
kUnihanCore2020
GHJMT
kXerox
272:161
kXHC1983
1081.020:shǔn