U+546B "呫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+546B "呫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that historically functions as a verb meaning "to taste" or "to sip," often implying a small, careful intake of liquid, and it also carries a secondary meaning of "to whisper" or "to murmur," referencing the movement of the lips. In classical Chinese texts, its usage is relatively rare, appearing in literary contexts rather than in modern standard Mandarin, where it is considered a variant or obscure character. The character is composed of the "mouth" radical (口) on the left, indicating speech or oral action, and the phonetic component "占" on the right, which contributes to its pronunciation (roughly similar to "zhàn" or "chè" depending on the reading). As part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, it follows the East Asian tradition of logographic writing, where each character encapsulates meaning, sound, and history in a single glyph.