U+55AB "喫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

喫
Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+55AB "喫" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to eat" or "to drink," often used in more formal or classical contexts compared to its common counterparts like 吃 or 喝. It appears in compounds such as 喫茶 (to drink tea) and 喫飯 (to eat a meal), and is notably retained in Japanese usage as 喫 (kitsu or the verb 喫う kū), where it similarly conveys consumption, as in 喫煙 (kitsuen, smoking). This character traces its origins to ancient Chinese scripts, where it depicted a person or mouth consuming something, and it remains a standard component in modern East Asian typography.

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General Properties

Code Point
U+55AB
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
喫
HTML Hex Encoding
喫
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0x96 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding
0x55AB
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000055AB
C/C++/Java Escape
\u55ab

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
B3F0
kCCCII
21712B
kCNS1986
1-5E56
kCNS1992
1-5E56
kCangjie
RQHK
kCantonese
hek3
kCihaiT
284.401
kCowles
5085
kDaeJaweon
0422.030
kDefinition
eat; drink; suffer, endure, bear
kEACC
2D3547
kFanqie
苦擊
kFennIndex
71.12
kFourCornerCode
6703.4
kGSR
0279h
kHangul
끽:0N
kHanYu
10648.070
kHanyuPinyin
10648.070:chī,kài
kIICore
ATJKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
10648.070
kIRG_GSource
GE-3367
kIRG_HSource
HB1-B3F0
kIRG_JSource
J0-354A
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-D2F6
kIRG_KSource
K0-5152
kIRG_TSource
T1-5E56
kIRG_VSource
V0-3244
kJapanese
キツ ケキ カイ くう のむ
kJoyoKanji
2010
kKoreanName
2015
kJapaneseKun
KUU NOMU
kJapaneseOn
KITSU KEKI
kJis0
2142
kKangXi
0200.190
kKarlgren
335
kKorean
KKIK
kLau
1162 3305
kMandarin
chī
kMatthews
1047
kMeyerWempe
3798
kMojiJoho
MJ008486 MJ008486:E0103 MJ008485:E0104 MJ008487:E0105 MJ008488:E0106
kMorohashi
03987' 03987':E0103 03987:E0104
kNelson
0961
kPhonetic
564
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+1636+30.3.9 V+13707+30.3.9 V+20092+30.3.9
kRSUnicode
30.9
kSBGY
523.01
kSemanticVariant
U+5403<kLau,kMatthews
kSMSZD2003Index
112.12
kTaiwanTelegraph
0848
kTotalStrokes
12
kUnihanCore2020
HJKMPT
kVietnamese
khịt
kXerox
322:102
kXHC1983
0141.071:chī