U+55B8 "喸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+55B8 "喸" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in classical and modern contexts, primarily representing a sound or phonetic element in certain words, though it is not among the most commonly used characters in everyday writing. This character belongs to the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block and carries the meaning related to a mouth or speech action, often associated with the act of prompting or urging a horse, derived from its radical "口" (mouth) and phonetic component "甫". Its usage appears in historical texts and specialized literary works, and it is encoded in Unicode to ensure consistent representation across digital systems for East Asian languages.
General Properties
Code Point
U+55B8
Name
CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
喸
HTML Hex Encoding
喸
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0x96 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding
0x55B8
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000055B8
C/C++/Java Escape
\u55b8
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Han
Unihan Properties
kCangjie
IBRP
kCantonese
fu2
kDaeJaweon
0424.050
kDefinition
place name
kHanYu
10651.051
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
10651.051
kIRG_GSource
GK-685C
kIRG_JSource
JMJ-068028
kIRG_KSource
K2-2827
kKangXi
0201.121
kKorean
PHOS
kMandarin
bǔ
kMojiJoho
MJ068028
kPhonetic
386*
kPseudoGB1
9366
kRSUnicode
30.9
kTotalStrokes
12