U+5543 "啃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+5543 "啃" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character composed of the mouth radical on the left and a phonetic component on the right, and it primarily means "to gnaw" or "to nibble," often used to describe the action of biting off small pieces of hard food, such as chewing on a bone or an apple core. In modern usage, it can also carry metaphorical meanings, such as "to study something diligently" or "to work through a difficult problem," similar to the English phrase "to chew on" a complex issue. The character appears frequently in everyday Chinese vocabulary, for example in words like "啃老" which refers to adult children who rely on their parents for financial support, literally "gnawing on the old."
General Properties
Code Point
U+5543
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
啃
HTML Hex Encoding
啃
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0x95 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding
0x5543
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00005543
C/C++/Java Escape
\u5543
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kBigFive
B0D9
kCCCII
213650
kCNS1986
1-593E
kCNS1992
1-593E
kCangjie
RYMB
kCantonese
hang2
kDaeJaweon
0415.040
kDefinition
gnaw, chew, bite
kEACC
213650
kFennIndex
247.08
kFourCornerCode
6102.7
kGB0
3148
kGB1
3148
kHanYu
10639.080
kHanyuPinlu
kěn(17)
kHanyuPinyin
10639.080:kěn
kHKGlyph
0604
kIICore
AGTHM
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
10639.080
kIRG_GSource
G0-3F50
kIRG_HSource
HB1-B0D9
kIRG_JSource
JMJ-008369
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-39F6
kIRG_KSource
K2-2758
kIRG_TSource
T1-593E
kJapanese
シュウ
kTGH
2013:2275
kJapaneseOn
SHUU
kKangXi
0194.270
kKorean
SAP
kMainlandTelegraph
8186
kMandarin
kěn
kMatthews
3335
kMojiJoho
MJ008369
kMorohashi
03798
kPhonetic
434
kRSUnicode
30.8
kSemanticVariant
U+9F66<kFenn
kSMSZD2003Index
108.06
kSMSZD2003Readings
kěn粵hang2
kTGHZ2013
197.080:kěn
kTotalStrokes
11
kUnihanCore2020
GHMT
kXerox
262:117
kXHC1983
0645.010:kěn