U+8999 "覙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
覙
U+8999 "覙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare or obscure Chinese character that falls under the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) Unified Ideographs block. Its structure combines a component related to sight or seeing, which is often associated with radical 見 (jiàn, meaning "see" or "appear"), and a phonetic or semantic element on the left, likely derived from 粦 (lín, meaning "phosphorus" or "firefly"), though the exact meaning and usage of this character are not well documented in modern standard Chinese. It may appear in historical or classical texts, possibly as a variant form of other characters, and is included in the Unicode standard to ensure compatibility with legacy encoding systems and specialized literary works.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8999 |
| 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 | 覙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 覙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xA6 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8999 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008999 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8999 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 254129 |
| kCangjie | NFBUU |
| kCantonese | can2 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1601.040 |
| kDefinition | explain in detail |
| kGB3 | 4063 |
| kHanYu | 63667.080 |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1601.040 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63667.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1134.350 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-485F |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-024233 |
| kIRG_TSource | T6-4E60 |
| kJapanese | シン |
| kJapaneseKun | MERU |
| kJapaneseOn | RA RAN REN |
| kKangXi | 1134.350 |
| kMandarin | luó |
| kMojiJoho | MJ024233 |
| kMorohashi | 34841 |
| kRSUnicode | 147.2 |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |