U+8996 "視" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
視
U+8996 "視" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Han character used primarily in traditional Chinese and Japanese writing, where it carries the core meaning of "to see" or "to view." It is composed of the semantic radical 見 (see) on the right and the phonetic component 示 (show) on the left, though its structure can vary slightly between scripts. In everyday usage, it appears in words like Japanese "shiya" (sight) or Chinese "shìlì" (eyesight) and is distinct from its simplified Chinese equivalent 视, which uses a different radical. Historically, 視 also conveyed concepts of inspection or appearing before someone, making it a versatile ideograph in East Asian literary and formal contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8996 |
| 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 | 視 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 視 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xA6 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8996 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008996 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8996 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | B5F8 |
| kCCCII | 21582B |
| kCNS1986 | 1-617E |
| kCNS1992 | 1-617E |
| kCangjie | IFBUU |
| kCantonese | si6 |
| kCowles | 3911 |
| kDefinition | look at, inspect, observe, see |
| kEACC | 21582B |
| kFanqie | 承矢 常利 |
| kFenn | 514D |
| kFennIndex | 455.06 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3621.0 |
| kGB1 | 4251 |
| kGradeLevel | 3 |
| kGSR | 0553h |
| kHangul | 시:0E |
| kHanYu | 63665.190 |
| kHanyuPinlu | shì(409) shi(12) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 63665.190:shì |
| kHKGlyph | 2876 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63665.190 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1134.210 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-4A53 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-B5F8 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-3B6B |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E5B1 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-634A |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-617E |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-6669 |
| kJapanese | シ ジ みる |
| kJoyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | MIRU |
| kJapaneseOn | SHI |
| kJis0 | 2775 |
| kKangXi | 1134.210 |
| kKorean | SI |
| kLau | 2771 |
| kMandarin | shì |
| kMatthews | 5789 |
| kMeyerWempe | 2693 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ024230 MJ030296:FE00 MJ024230:E0102 MJ030296:E0103 |
| kMorohashi | 34827' 34836:FE00 34827':E0102 34836:E0103 |
| kNelson | 3248 |
| kPhonetic | 1180 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+2233+113.4.7 C+2233+147.7.4 |
| kRSUnicode | 113.7 147.5 |
| kSBGY | 247.13 352.34 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+770E<kMatthews |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "视" U+89C6 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 637.06 480.13 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | shì粵si6 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6018 |
| kTang | *zhǐ zhì |
| kTotalStrokes | 11 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | thị |
| kXerox | 245:060 |