U+5438 "吸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
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U+5438 "吸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to inhale" or "to suck," encompassing actions like breathing in air or drawing in liquid, as well as metaphorical uses such as absorbing attention or attracting interest. It is composed of the radical 口 (mouth) on the left, indicating its connection to oral actions, and the phonetic component 及 (jí) on the right, which provides a clue to its pronunciation. Historically, this character has been integral to words like 呼吸 (hūxī, meaning "to breathe") and 吸收 (xīshōu, meaning "to absorb"), and it appears frequently in modern usage from medical contexts to everyday language across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems.
General Properties
Code Point
U+5438
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
吸
HTML Hex Encoding
吸
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0x90 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding
0x5438
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00005438
C/C++/Java Escape
\u5438
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
A76C
kCCCII
213562
kCNS1986
1-494E
kCNS1992
1-494E
kCangjie
RNHE
kCantonese
kap1
kCihaiT
262.203
kCowles
1926 3032
kDaeJaweon
0397.060
kDefinition
inhale, suck in; absorb; attract
kEACC
213562
kFanqie
許及
kFenn
218E
kFennIndex
159.03
kFourCornerCode
6704.7
kGB0
4692
kGB1
4692
kGradeLevel
2
kGSR
0681j
kHangul
흡:0E
kHanYu
10594.010
kHanyuPinlu
xī(371)
kHanyuPinyin
10594.010:xī
kHKGlyph
0530
kIICore
AGTJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
10594.010
kIRG_GSource
G0-4E7C
kIRG_HSource
HB1-A76C
kIRG_JSource
J0-355B
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-F5B4
kIRG_KSource
K0-7D65
kIRG_TSource
T1-494E
kIRG_VSource
V0-306E
kJapanese
キュウ すう
kJoyoKanji
2010
kKoreanEducationHanja
2007
kTGH
2013:431
kJapaneseKun
SUU
kJapaneseOn
KYUU
kJis0
2159
kKangXi
0179.120
kKarlgren
322
kKorean
HUP
kLau
1661
kMainlandTelegraph
0705
kMandarin
xī
kMatthews
2471
kMeyerWempe
1054 2043
kMojiJoho
MJ008114 MJ008114:E0102 MJ008113:E0103
kMorohashi
03372' 03372':E0102 03372:E0103
kNelson
0885 0888
kPhonetic
581
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+1653+30.3.3 V+13711+30.3.4
kRSUnicode
30.4
kSBGY
533.25
kSemanticVariant
U+564F<kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index
93.08
kSMSZD2003Readings
xī粵kap1
kTaiwanTelegraph
0705
kTang
xyip
kTGHZ2013
391.040:xī
kTotalStrokes
6
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kVietnamese
cộp
kXerox
245:254
kXHC1983
1229.010:xī