U+7AA5 "窥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+7AA5 "窥" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character traditionally meaning "to peep," "to spy on," or "to watch stealthily," often connoting a secretive or furtive observation from a hiding place. It is composed of the radical "穴" (cave or hole) on top and "规" (rule or pattern) below, reflecting its original association with spying through a small opening. In modern usage, it appears in words like "窥视" (to peep) and "窥探" (to pry into), maintaining its sense of covert surveillance. This character is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs block, used across traditional and simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean scripts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+7AA5
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	窥
HTML Hex Encoding	窥
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE7 0xAA 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x7AA5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00007AA5
C/C++/Java Escape	\u7aa5

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

kCCCII	274F60
kCangjie	XJCQO
kCantonese	kwai1
kDefinition	peep, watch, spy on, pry
kEACC	274F60
kFourCornerCode	3081
kGB0	3190
kHanYu	42732.060
kIICore	AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	42732.060
kIRGKangXi	0866.551
kIRG_GSource	G0-3F7A
kTGH	2013:3027
kKangXi	0866.551
kMainlandTelegraph	4529
kMandarin	kuī
kRSUnicode	116.8
kSMSZD2003Index	491.18
kTGHZ2013	202.170:kuī
kTotalStrokes	13
kTraditionalVariant	"窺" U+7ABA CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0661.100:kuī