U+550F "唏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

唏
Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+550F "唏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily conveys a sense of sighing, lamenting, or expressing sorrow, and is often used in classical and modern Chinese literature to depict emotional exhalations of regret or pity. Its pronunciation in Mandarin is "xī", and it appears in compound phrases such as "唏噓" (xīxū) which means to sigh deeply or to sob with a choked voice, frequently employed in narrative contexts to describe characters' melancholy reactions. This character belongs to the CJK Unified Ideographs block and carries the radical 口 (mouth), reflecting its phonetic and semantic connection to sounds or utterances of emotional distress.

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General Properties

Code Point
U+550F
Version Added
1.1
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Block
CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category
Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class
Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class
Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
唏
HTML Hex Encoding
唏
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0x94 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding
0x550F
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000550F
C/C++/Java Escape
\u550f

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check
Yes
NFD Quick Check
Yes
NFKC Quick Check
Yes
NFKD Quick Check
Yes
Numeric Type
None
Numeric Value
NaN
Line Break
Ideographic
East Asian Width
Wide
Script
Han
Script Extensions
Han
Indic Syllabic Category
Other
ID Start
Yes
XID Start
Yes
ID Continue
Yes
XID Continue
Yes
Alphabetic
Yes
Vertical Orientation
Upright
Grapheme Base
Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break
Other
Word Break
Other
Sentence Break
OLetter
Ideographic
Yes
Unified Ideograph
Yes

Unihan Properties

kBigFive
AE44
kCCCII
217046
kCNS1986
1-5466
kCNS1992
1-5466
kCangjie
RKKB
kCantonese
hei1
kCihaiT
276.407
kCowles
1018
kDaeJaweon
0411.180
kDefinition
weep or sob; grieve
kEACC
217046
kFanqie
虚豈 許旣
kFourCornerCode
6402.7
kGB0
6381
kGB1
6381
kHangul
희:1N
kHanYu
10631.160
kHanyuPinyin
10631.160:xī,xiè
kIICore
AGTM
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
10631.160
kIRG_GSource
G0-5F71
kIRG_HSource
HB1-AE44
kIRG_JSource
J0-5329
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-39DC
kIRG_KSource
K1-7536
kIRG_TSource
T1-5466
kIRG_VSource
V0-315B
kJapanese
キ ケ カイ なく なげく
kKoreanName
2015
kTGH
2013:4517
kJapaneseKun
NAGEKU
kJapaneseOn
KI
kJis0
5109
kKangXi
0192.100
kKorean
HUY
kMainlandTelegraph
0785
kMandarin
xī
kMatthews
2417
kMeyerWempe
687e
kMojiJoho
MJ008324
kMorohashi
03707
kPhonetic
451
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+4380+30.3.7
kRSUnicode
30.7
kSBGY
255.48 361.21
kSMSZD2003Index
104.11
kSMSZD2003Readings
xī粵hei1
kTaiwanTelegraph
0785
kTang
*xiə̌i xiə̀i
kTGHZ2013
391.160:xī
kTotalStrokes
10
kUnihanCore2020
GHJMT
kVietnamese
hơi
kXerox
301:174
kXHC1983
1230.090:xī