U+774E "睎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+774E "睎" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily means "to look at" or "to gaze," often with a connotation of longing or admiration, and can also signify "to hope for" or "to desire." It is composed of the radical 目 (eye) on the left side, indicating its visual association, and the phonetic component 希 on the right. This character appears in classical Chinese literature and historical texts, used in contexts such as expressing a yearning gaze toward someone or something distant. While less common in modern everyday Chinese, it remains part of the Standard Chinese character set and may be encountered in poetic or traditional writing.

General Properties

Code Point U+774E
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 睎
HTML Hex Encoding 睎
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE7 0x9D 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0x774E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000774E
C/C++/Java Escape \u774e

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 DAC0
kCCCII 226237
kCNS1986 2-3E44
kCNS1992 2-3E44
kCangjie BUKKB
kCantonese hei1
kCihaiT 951.403
kDaeJaweon 1224.220
kDefinition to long for; to gaze at
kEACC 226237
kFanqie 香衣
kFourCornerCode 6402.7
kGB3 5781
kGSR 0549g
kHanYu 42491.160
kHanyuPinyin 42491.160:xī
kIRGDaeJaweon 1224.220
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 42491.160
kIRGKangXi 0809.140
kIRG_GSource G3-5971
kIRG_HSource HB2-DAC0
kIRG_JSource J13-7874
kIRG_KPSource KP1-5E3D
kIRG_KSource K2-4B3F
kIRG_TSource T2-3E44
kJapanese キ ケ
kTGH 2013:7350
kJIS0213 1,88,84
kJapaneseOn KI KE
kJis1 4685
kKangXi 0809.140
kMandarin
kMatthews 2420
kMeyerWempe 694h
kMojiJoho MJ018228
kMorohashi 23393
kPhonetic 451
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+17000+109.5.7
kRSUnicode 109.7
kSBGY 065.42
kTGHZ2013 392.080:xī
kTotalStrokes 12
kUnihanCore2020 GHMT
kXHC1983 1230.110:xī