U+89A9 "覩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+89A9 "覩" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character used in classical and literary contexts, often signifying "to see," "to observe," or "to view," with a nuance of deliberate or attentive looking. It is composed of the radical 見 (jiàn, meaning "see" or "appearance") on the bottom, and the upper component 者 (zhě, a common character for "person" or "that which") serving as a phonetic and semantic hint, linking it to concepts of perception and discernment. Historically, 覩 is an alternate or variant form of the more common character 睹 (dǔ), which carries the same meaning, and it appears in ancient Chinese texts and poetry, reflecting the language's nuanced expressions for visual experience. In modern usage, it is rare but still recognized, particularly in specialized or scholarly writing, where it retains its sense of focused observation.

General Properties

Code Point U+89A9
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 覩
HTML Hex Encoding 覩
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE8 0xA6 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding 0x89A9
UTF-32 Encoding 0x000089A9
C/C++/Java Escape \u89a9

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

kCCCII 233079
kCNS1986 E-4E64
kCNS1992 3-4E64
kCangjie JABUU
kCantonese dou2
kCihaiT 1231.301
kDaeJaweon 1602.300
kDefinition see, gaze at, witness
kEACC 233079
kFanqie 當古
kFennIndex 568.01
kFourCornerCode 4661.0
kGSR 0045d'
kHangul 도:0N
kHanYu 63669.170
kHanyuPinyin 63669.170:dǔ
kIICore AKP
kIRGDaeJaweon 1602.300
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 63669.170
kIRGKangXi 1136.060
kIRG_GSource GE-4C53
kIRG_HSource H-A0D4
kIRG_JSource J0-6B2F
kIRG_KPSource KP0-D6AA
kIRG_KSource K0-542D
kIRG_TSource T3-4E64
kIRG_VSource V2-8F7A
kJapanese ト ツ みる
kKoreanName 2015
kJapaneseKun MIRU
kJapaneseOn TO
kJis0 7515
kKangXi 1136.060
kKorean TO
kMandarin
kMatthews 6498
kMeyerWempe 3141b
kMojiJoho MJ024250 MJ024250:E0101 MJ024251:E0102
kMorohashi 34913 34913:E0101
kNelson 4290
kPhonetic 94
kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 C+6642+147.7.9
kRSUnicode 147.9
kSBGY 265.28
kSemanticVariant U+7779<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe
kSimplifiedVariant "𬢎" U+2C88E CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kSMSZD2003Index 638.08
kTaiwanTelegraph 6023
kTang
kTotalStrokes 15
kUnihanCore2020 HJKP
kXerox 323:067
kXHC1983 0268.021:dǔ