# 嗅 U+55C5 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55C5

A Chinese character meaning “smell, scent, sniff; olfactive”, read xiù in Mandarin.

| | |
|---|---|
| Character | `嗅` |
| Codepoint | U+55C5 |
| Name | CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55C5 |
| Block | [CJK Unified Ideographs](https://unicodekit.com/block/cjk-unified-ideographs) |
| Script | Han |
| Category | Other Letter (Lo) |
| Unicode version | 1.1 |
| HTML | `&#21957;` `&#x55C5;` |
| CSS | `\55C5` |
| JavaScript | `\u55C5` |
| UTF-8 | E5 97 85 |
| UTF-16 | 55C5 |
| Definition | smell, scent, sniff; olfactive |
| Mandarin | xiù |
| Cantonese | cau3 |
| Japanese | KYUU KAGU |
| Korean | HWU |

## Related characters

- 嗄 [U+55C4 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55C4](https://unicodekit.com/char/55C4)
- 嗆 [U+55C6 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55C6](https://unicodekit.com/char/55C6)
- 嗃 [U+55C3 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55C3](https://unicodekit.com/char/55C3)
- 嗇 [U+55C7 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55C7](https://unicodekit.com/char/55C7)
- 嗂 [U+55C2 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55C2](https://unicodekit.com/char/55C2)
- 嗈 [U+55C8 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55C8](https://unicodekit.com/char/55C8)
- 嗁 [U+55C1 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55C1](https://unicodekit.com/char/55C1)
- 嗉 [U+55C9 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55C9](https://unicodekit.com/char/55C9)
- 嗀 [U+55C0 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55C0](https://unicodekit.com/char/55C0)
- 嗊 [U+55CA CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55CA](https://unicodekit.com/char/55CA)
- 喿 [U+55BF CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55BF](https://unicodekit.com/char/55BF)
- 嗋 [U+55CB CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-55CB](https://unicodekit.com/char/55CB)

Page: https://unicodekit.com/char/55C5 · JSON: https://unicodekit.com/characters/55C5
