U+56BC "嚼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

嚼
Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+56BC "嚼" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to chew" or "to masticate," often used in the context of eating or grinding food with the teeth. It is composed of the radical 口 (mouth) on the left, indicating its association with the mouth, and the phonetic component 爵 on the right, which hints at its pronunciation in Mandarin as "jué" or "jiáo." This character appears in everyday vocabulary such as 咀嚼 (jǔjué), meaning "to chew thoroughly," and is also used metaphorically to describe pondering or ruminating over ideas, much like chewing on a thought.

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General Properties

Code Point
U+56BC
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
嚼
HTML Hex Encoding
嚼
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE5 0x9A 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding
0x56BC
UTF-32 Encoding
0x000056BC
C/C++/Java Escape
\u56bc

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
C45A
kCCCII
21375F
kCNS1986
1-7965
kCNS1992
1-7965
kCangjie
RBWI
kCantonese
zoek3
kCihaiT
294.202
kCowles
4521
kDaeJaweon
0437.080
kDefinition
prattle, be glib
kEACC
21375F
kFanqie
在爵
kFenn
851D
kFennIndex
49.05 51.04 121.03
kFourCornerCode
6204.6
kGB0
2932
kGB1
2932
kGradeLevel
4
kHangul
작:0N
kHanYu
10704.080
kHanyuPinlu
jué(15)
kHanyuPinyin
10704.080:jué,jiáo
kHKGlyph
0709
kIICore
AGTJHKMP
kIRGHanyuDaZidian
10704.080
kIRG_GSource
G0-3D40
kIRG_HSource
HB1-C45A
kIRG_JSource
J0-5370
kIRG_KPSource
KP0-E6C6
kIRG_KSource
K0-6D44
kIRG_TSource
T1-7965
kJapanese
シャク ザク ショウ ジョウ かむ
kKoreanName
2015
kTGH
2013:3479
kJapaneseKun
KAMU
kJapaneseOn
SHAKU
kJis0
5180
kKangXi
0214.180
kKorean
CAK
kLau
1387 1525
kMainlandTelegraph
0920
kMandarin
jué
kMatthews
1180
kMeyerWempe
3321
kMojiJoho
MJ008778 MJ008778:E0101 MJ008779:E0102
kMorohashi
04602 04602:E0101
kNelson
1016
kPhonetic
105
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6
C+4451+30.3.18
kRSUnicode
30.18
kSBGY
503.11
kSMSZD2003Index
122.09 122.13
kSMSZD2003Readings
jiáo粵zoek3 jué粵zoek3 jiào粵ziu6
kTaiwanTelegraph
0920
kTang
dzhiɑk
kTGHZ2013
169.110:jiáo 171.160:jiào 189.130:jué
kTotalStrokes
20
kUnihanCore2020
GHJKMPT
kXerox
255:242
kXHC1983
0567.060:jiáo 0573.010:jiào 0619.040:jué