U+899E "覞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
覞
U+899E "覞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a rare and ancient Chinese character that primarily means "to look at each other" or "mutual gazing," and it is composed of two "見" (jiàn, meaning "see" or "appear") radicals arranged side by side, visually suggesting a reciprocal act of seeing. This character is classified within the Kangxi radical 147 (見) and is found in classical Chinese texts, where it conveys a sense of bilateral observation or scrutiny. While it is not commonly used in modern Chinese, it appears in historical dictionaries and scholarly references as an example of how the script evolved to express nuanced interpersonal actions through compound ideographs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+899E |
| 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 | 覞 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 覞 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xA6 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x899E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000899E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u899e |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | E446 |
| kCCCII | 233070 |
| kCNS1986 | 2-4E2E |
| kCNS1992 | 2-4E2E |
| kCangjie | BUBUU |
| kCantonese | jiu6 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1601.220 |
| kFanqie | 弋照 |
| kFourCornerCode | 6621.0 |
| kGB3 | 4061 |
| kHanYu | 63669.050 |
| kHanyuPinyin | 63669.050:yào |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1601.220 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63669.050 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1135.130 |
| kIRG_GSource | G3-485D |
| kIRG_HSource | HB2-E446 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-024238 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-74EB |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-5F5D |
| kIRG_TSource | T2-4E2E |
| kJapanese | ヨウ ショウ セキ シャク |
| kKangXi | 1135.130 |
| kMandarin | yào |
| kMojiJoho | MJ024238 |
| kMorohashi | 34866 |
| kRSUnicode | 147.7 |
| kSBGY | 413.43 |
| kTotalStrokes | 14 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HMT |