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Glyph for U+55A8
Source: Noto CJK

U+55A8 CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​55A8

U+55A8 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block U+4E00 to U+9FFF CJK Unified Ideographs in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Han script. The Unihan Database defines it as wail, cry, yell; neigh. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is liàng.

The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+55A8 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 21928
UTF-8 E5 96 A8
UTF-16 55 A8
UTF-32 00 00 55 A8
URL-Quoted %E5%96%A8
HTML hex reference 喨
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake å–¨
Encoding: JIS0208 (hex bytes) D3 CA
Pīnyīn liàng

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na) CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55A8
Unicode 1 Name (na1) —
Block (blk) CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category (gc) Other Letter
Script (sc) Han
Bidirectional Category (bc) Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) none
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+55A8 CJK Unified Ideograph-55A8
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+55A8 CJK Unified Ideograph-55A8
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+55A8 CJK Unified Ideograph-55A8
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+55A8 CJK Unified Ideograph-55A8
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+55A8 CJK Unified Ideograph-55A8
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+55A8 CJK Unified Ideograph-55A8
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+55A8 CJK Unified Ideograph-55A8
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+55A8 CJK Unified Ideograph-55A8
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) ✘
Alphabetic (Alpha) ✔
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) ✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘
Case Ignorable (CI) ✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) ✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) ✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) ✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) ✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) ✘
Cased (Cased) ✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘
Dash (Dash) ✘
Deprecated (Dep) ✘
Diacritic (Dia) ✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) ✘
Emoji Component (EComp) ✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod) ✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres) ✘
Emoji (Emoji) ✘
Extender (Ext) ✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+55A8 CJK Unified Ideograph-55A8
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) ✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✘
Hex Digit (Hex) ✘
Hyphen (Hyphen) ✘
ID Continue (IDC) ✔
ID Start (IDS) ✔
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✔
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) —
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN) —
Join Control (Join_C) ✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE) ✘
Math (Math) ✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+55A8 CJK Unified Ideograph-55A8
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+55A8 CJK Unified Ideograph-55A8
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) ✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) ✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC) ✘
Other ID Start (OIDS) ✘
Other Lowercase (OLower) ✘
Other Math (OMath) ✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper) ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) ✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) ✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) ✘
Quotation Mark (QMark) ✘
Regional Indicator (RI) ✘
Radical (Radical) ✘
Sentence Break (SB) Other Letter
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✔
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) Other
White Space (WSpace) ✘
XID Continue (XIDC) ✔
XID Start (XIDS) ✔
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) ✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) ✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) ✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+55A8 CJK Unified Ideograph-55A8
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) wide
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) —
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Ideographic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+55A8 CJK Unified Ideograph-55A8
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U
Big Five Mapping (kBigFive) D867
CCCII Mapping (kCCCII) 217126
CNS 11643-1986 Mapping (kCNS1986) 2-3A4B
CNS 11643-1992 Mapping (kCNS1992) 2-3A4B
Cangjie Input Code (kCangjie) RYRU
kCantonese (kCantonese) loeng6
kCowles (kCowles) 2328
kDaeJaweon (kDaeJaweon) 0421.190
Unihan Definition (kDefinition) wail, cry, yell; neigh
kEACC (kEACC) 217126
kFourCornerCode (kFourCornerCode) 6001.7
kGB3 (kGB3) 2282
kHanYu (kHanYu) 10659.010
kHangul (kHangul) 량:1N
kHanyuPinyin (kHanyuPinyin) 10659.010:liàng
kIICore (kIICore) BTJ
kIRGDaeJaweon (kIRGDaeJaweon) 0421.190
kIRGHanyuDaZidian (kIRGHanyuDaZidian) 10659.010
kIRGKangXi (kIRGKangXi) 0200.050
kIRG_GSource (kIRG_GSource) G3-3672
kIRG_HSource (kIRG_HSource) HB2-D867
kIRG_JSource (kIRG_JSource) J0-534A
kIRG_KPSource (kIRG_KPSource) KP1-3A23
kIRG_KSource (kIRG_KSource) K1-5E35
kIRG_TSource (kIRG_TSource) T2-3A4B
kJapanese (kJapanese) リョウ
kJapaneseKun (kJapaneseKun) HOGARAKA
kJapaneseOn (kJapaneseOn) RYOU
kJis0 (kJis0) 5142
kKangXi (kKangXi) 0200.050
kKorean (kKorean) LYANG
kKoreanName (kKoreanName) 2015
kMandarin (kMandarin) liàng
kMatthews (kMatthews) 3950
kMeyerWempe (kMeyerWempe) 1551b
kMojiJoho (kMojiJoho) MJ008480 MJ008480:E0101 MJ008481:E0102
kMorohashi (kMorohashi) 03978 03978:E0101
kNelson (kNelson) 0944
kPhonetic (kPhonetic) 800
Radical Stroke Count (Adobe Japan 1-6) (kRSAdobe_Japan1_6) C+4413+30.3.9
Radical Stroke Count (Unicode) (kRSUnicode) 30.9
kSMSZD2003Index (kSMSZD2003Index) 111.06
kSMSZD2003Readings (kSMSZD2003Readings) liàng粵loeng6
Semantic Variant (kSemanticVariant) Glyph for U+54F4 U+54F4
Taiwanese Telegraph Code (kTaiwanTelegraph) 8176
Stroke Number (kTotalStrokes) 12
UnihanCore2020 Set (kUnihanCore2020) HJMT
kXHC1983 (kXHC1983) 0710.010:liàng
Xerox Code (kXerox) 270:121