Cjk Ideograph-5509

U+5509
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character
Decimal 唉
Hex 唉

Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+5509
Decimal
21769
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Other Letter (Lo)
Script
Han
Bidi class
L Left-to-Right
East Asian Width
W Wide
Properties
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Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Cjk Ideograph-5509.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
唉
HTML Hex
唉
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E5 94 89
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
55 09
UTF-32 Hex
00005509
CSS Escape
\5509
JavaScript Escape
\u5509
Python Escape
\u5509
URL Encoded
%E5%94%89
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Unihan Data

Readings and dictionary data from the Unicode Han Database (Unihan).

Definition
alas, exclamation of surprise or pain
Mandarin (Pinyin)
āi
Cantonese (Jyutping)
aai1
Japanese On
KAI KI AI I
Japanese Kun
AA AAOO IYAIYAKOTAERU
Korean
AY
Vietnamese
hãy