U+563B "" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+563B "" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily conveys the sound of laughter, often used in informal writing to represent a lighthearted giggle or chuckle, similar to "hee hee" or "ha ha" in English. It is composed of the radical 口 (kǒu, meaning "mouth") on the left, indicating speech or sound, and the phonetic component 喜 (xǐ, meaning "joy" or "happiness") on the right, which together suggest joyful vocal expression. Commonly appearing in words like 笑嘻嘻 (xiào xī xī, meaning "grinning broadly" or "laughing happily"), this character carries a cheerful, playful connotation and is frequently used in Chinese social media, comics, and casual conversation to depict amusement without sarcasm.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
嘻
HTML Hex Encoding
嘻
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0x98 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding
0x563B
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000563B
C/C++/Java Escape
\u563b

Unihan Properties

kBigFive
BC48
kCCCII
213737
kCNS1986
1-6C32
kCNS1992
1-6C32
kCangjie
RGRR
kCantonese
hei1
kCihaiT
290.404
kCowles
1022
kDaeJaweon
0430.250
kDefinition
mirthful, happy; interjection
kEACC
213737
kFanqie
許其
kFourCornerCode
6406.1
kGB0
4691
kGB1
4691
kGSR
0955e
kHangul
희:1N
kHanYu
10680.150
kHanyuPinlu
xī(42)
kHanyuPinyin
10680.150:xī
kHKGlyph
0671
kIICore
AGTHM
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
10680.150
kIRG_GSource
G0-4E7B
kIRG_HSource
HB1-BC48
kIRG_JSource
J13-2F32
kIRG_KPSource
KP1-3AC3
kIRG_KSource
K1-7537
kIRG_TSource
T1-6C32
kIRG_VSource
V1-4F78
kJapanese
キ イ やわらぐ わらう ああ
kKoreanName
2015
kTGH
2013:3236
kJIS0213
1,15,18
kJapaneseKun
IMASHIME YAHARAGU AA WARAHU
kJapaneseOn
KI I
kJis1
2226
kKangXi
0207.300
kKarlgren
129
kKorean
HUY
kMainlandTelegraph
0883
kMandarin
kMatthews
2436
kMeyerWempe
690
kMojiJoho
MJ008633
kMorohashi
04276
kPhonetic
455
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+16810+30.3.12
kRSUnicode
30.12
kSBGY
062.37
kSMSZD2003Index
117.17
kSMSZD2003Readings
xī粵hei1
kSpecializedSemanticVariant
U+54A5<kMeyerWempe
kTaiwanTelegraph
0883
kTGHZ2013
393.040:xī
kTotalStrokes
15
kUnihanCore2020
GHMT
kVietnamese
hi
kXerox
252:260
kXHC1983
1226.080:xī