U+898C "覌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+898C "覌" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that serves as a variant or simplified form of the more common character "觀" (simplified as 观), which means "to see," "to observe," or "to view," and it can also denote the concept of a sight, spectacle, or a Taoist/Buddhist temple. This particular glyph, structurally combining the radical for "see" (见 or 見) on the right with a modified left component, is historically used in some calligraphic contexts and regional typographic traditions, though it is less frequently encountered in standard modern Chinese text compared to its standardized counterpart. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that textual archives, historical documents, and specialized fonts can accurately represent this unique orthographic form.

General Properties

Code Point U+898C
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 覌
HTML Hex Encoding 覌
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xA6 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0x898C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000898C
C/C++/Java Escape \u898c

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

kCNS1986 E-2F29
kCNS1992 3-2F29
kCangjie XEBUU
kCantonese gun1
kDefinition see, observe, view; appearance
kFennIndex 267.01
kHanYu 80038.140
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 80038.140
kIRGKangXi 1133.031
kIRG_GSource GE-4C4B
kIRG_JSource JMJ-024218
kIRG_KPSource KP1-74CE
kIRG_MSource MD-898C
kIRG_TSource T3-2F29
kJapanese カン みる
kJapaneseKun MIRU
kJapaneseOn KAN
kKangXi 1133.031
kKorean KWAN
kLau 1072
kMandarin guān
kMatthews 3575
kMojiJoho MJ024218
kMorohashi 34800
kRSUnicode 147.2
kSemanticVariant U+89C0<kMatthews
kSpecializedSemanticVariant U+89C0<kFenn
kTotalStrokes 9