U+898B "見" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
見
U+898B "見" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character meaning "to see" or "to look at" and is also used in Japanese as a kanji with similar meanings, such as seeing, meeting, or showing. Its form portrays an eye atop legs, symbolizing vision and perception, and it appears in compound words like "意見" (opinion) or "発見" (discovery). This character is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, historically derived from oracle bone script, and remains commonly used in modern East Asian writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+898B |
| 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 | 見 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 見 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xA6 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x898B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000898B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u898b |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A8A3 |
| kCCCII | 215828 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4B44 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4B44 |
| kCangjie | BUHU |
| kCantonese | gin3 |
| kCihaiT | 1229.101 |
| kCowles | 1663 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1599.080 |
| kDefinition | see, observe, behold; perceive; Kangxi radical 147 |
| kEACC | 215828 |
| kFanqie | 古電 胡甸 |
| kFenn | 865A |
| kFennIndex | 61.01 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6021.0 |
| kGB1 | 2891 |
| kGradeLevel | 1 |
| kGSR | 0241a |
| kHangul | 견:0E 현:0N |
| kHanYu | 63663.010 |
| kHanyuPinlu | jiàn(2832) xiàn(446) jian(335) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 63663.010:jiàn,xiàn |
| kHDZRadBreak | ⾒[U+2F92]:63663.010 |
| kHKGlyph | 3736 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1599.080 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63663.010 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1133.010 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-3C7B |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A8A3 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-382B |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-CEFA |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4C38 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4B44 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6667 |
| kJapanese | ケン ゲン カン みる みえる みせる あらわれる まみえる |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | MIRU MIERU MAMIERU |
| kJapaneseOn | KEN |
| kJis0 | 2411 |
| kKangXi | 1133.010 |
| kKarlgren | 368 |
| kKorean | KYEN HYEN |
| kLau | 910 |
| kMandarin | jiàn |
| kMatthews | 860 |
| kMeyerWempe | 1151 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ024217 |
| kMorohashi | 34796 |
| kNelson | 4284 |
| kPhonetic | 621 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1887+147.7.0 |
| kRSUnicode | 147.0 |
| kSBGY | 407.63 408.09 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "见" U+89C1 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 637.01 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | jiàn粵gin3 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6015 |
| kTang | *gèn |
| kTotalStrokes | 7 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | kiến |
| kXerox | 241:150 |
| kXHC1983 | 0555.101:jiàn |