U+8998 "覘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

覘

U+8998 "覘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily means "to spy on" or "to watch stealthily," and it also carries the sense of "to observe" or "to examine" in a broader context. Composed of the radical "見" (meaning "see" or "vision") on the right side, which suggests the action of looking, and a phonetic component on the left, this character historically appears in classical Chinese texts and is used in modern contexts to denote surreptitious observation or careful scrutiny. It is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block and is encoded as U+8998 in Unicode, representing a specific logographic symbol shared across East Asian scripts, though its usage is relatively rare in contemporary writing.

General Properties

Code Point	U+8998
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	覘
HTML Hex Encoding	覘
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xA6 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding	0x8998
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00008998
C/C++/Java Escape	\u8998

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	DBD1
kCCCII	233066
kCNS1986	2-4037
kCNS1992	2-4037
kCangjie	YRBUU
kCantonese	zim1
kCihaiT	1230.402
kDaeJaweon	1601.030
kDefinition	peek; spy on, watch; investigate
kEACC	233066
kFanqie	丑廉丑豔
kFourCornerCode	2661.0
kGB1	7472
kGSR	0618g
kHangul	점:1N
kHanYu	63666.060
kHanyuPinyin	63666.060:chān,dān,jī
kIRGDaeJaweon	1601.030
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63666.060
kIRGKangXi	1134.330
kIRG_GSource	G1-6A68
kIRG_HSource	HB2-DBD1
kIRG_JSource	J0-6B2D
kIRG_KPSource	KP1-74DE
kIRG_KSource	K1-6C49
kIRG_TSource	T2-4037
kIRG_VSource	V2-8F79
kJapanese	テンタントンうかがうのぞく
kKoreanName	2015
kJapaneseKun	UKAGAU
kJapaneseOn	TEN
kJis0	7513
kKangXi	1134.330
kKorean	CEM
kMandarin	chān
kMatthews	130
kMeyerWempe	278e
kMojiJoho	MJ024232
kMorohashi	34840
kNelson	4286
kPhonetic	177
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6	C+6640+147.7.5
kRSUnicode	147.5
kSBGY	227.19 444.09
kSemanticVariant	U+4021 U+4993<kMeyerWempe
kSimplifiedVariant	"觇" U+89C7 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index	637.09
kSMSZD2003Readings	chān粵zim1
kTaiwanTelegraph	6019
kTotalStrokes	12
kUnihanCore2020	HJMT
kXerox	275:330