U+561A "嘚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+561A "嘚" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as an onomatopoeia, often representing the sound of a horse's hoofbeats or a clicking noise, such as from a tongue or device. In modern Chinese, it appears in colloquial expressions like "嘚瑟" (dèse), which means to show off or be smug in a flamboyant or irritating way, reflecting a nuanced usage in informal speech. The character is composed of the radical for mouth (口) suggesting sound or speech, and the phonetic component "得" (dé), and it is classified under the CJK Unified Ideographs block in Unicode, encoding an East Asian script character used in written Chinese.