U+4FA6 "侦" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
侦
U+4FA6 "侦" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily means "to scout," "to detect," or "to investigate." It is commonly used in modern Mandarin Chinese as a simplified form, with its traditional counterpart being 偵. The character is composed of the radical 亻 (person) on the left, indicating a human action, and the phonetic component 贞 on the right. You will frequently encounter it in words like 侦察 (zhēnchá, meaning "reconnaissance" or "scout") and 侦探 (zhēntàn, meaning "detective" or "to detect"), highlighting its role in contexts of observation, espionage, and criminal investigation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+4FA6 |
| 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 | 侦 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 侦 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE4 0xBE 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x4FA6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00004FA6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u4fa6 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 273238 |
| kCangjie | OYBO |
| kCantonese | zing1 |
| kDefinition | spy, reconnoiter; detective |
| kEACC | 273238 |
| kFourCornerCode | 2128 |
| kGB0 | 5376 |
| kHanYu | 10147.070 |
| kHanyuPinlu | zhēn(51) |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10147.070 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0102.291 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-556C |
| kTGH | 2013:1145 |
| kKangXi | 0102.291 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0259 |
| kMandarin | zhēn |
| kPhonetic | 198* |
| kRSUnicode | 9.6 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 29.03 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 471.030:zhēn |
| kTotalStrokes | 8 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "偵" U+5075 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 1467.060:zhēn |