U+899E "覞" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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 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