U+556E "啮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+556E "啮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to gnaw," "to nibble," or "to bite," often used in contexts involving rodents or insects chewing through materials. It is composed of the radical "口" (mouth) on the left side, indicating an action related to the mouth, and a phonetic component on the right that suggests its pronunciation in Mandarin as "niè." This character appears in classical and modern Chinese texts, frequently in phrases like "啮齿类" (rodents, literally "gnawing teeth") or "啮合" (to mesh or engage, as in gears). As part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block in Unicode, it represents a standard logogram shared across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems, with slight variations in stroke order depending on the region.