U+89BA "覺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
覺
U+89BA "覺" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that translates to "awaken", "realize", or "perceive" and carries deep philosophical significance, particularly in East Asian Buddhist and Confucian contexts. In Buddhism, it represents enlightenment or the awakening to ultimate truth, closely associated with the title of Buddha meaning "the awakened one". The character appears in texts such as the Heart Sutra and is also used in modern Chinese and Japanese to express the act of sensing, feeling, or becoming aware of something. Its structure combines elements of "seeing" and "learning", visually encapsulating the concept of gaining insight through observation and understanding.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+89BA |
| 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 | 覺 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 覺 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xA6 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x89BA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000089BA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u89ba |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | C4B1 |
| kCCCII | 215830 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7A3C |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7A3C |
| kCangjie | HBBUU |
| kCantonese | gok3 |
| kCihaiT | 1231.406 |
| kCowles | 1509 1745 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1604.290 |
| kDefinition | to wake up from sleep; conscious |
| kEACC | 215830 |
| kFanqie | 古孝 古岳 |
| kFenn | 692A |
| kFennIndex | 49.07 50.10 120.05 |
| kFourCornerCode | 7721.6 |
| kGB1 | 3085 |
| kGradeLevel | 2 |
| kGSR | 1038f |
| kHangul | 각:0E |
| kHanYu | 63675.080 |
| kHanyuPinlu | jué(1032) jiào(179) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 63675.080:jué,jiào |
| kHKGlyph | 3743 |
| kIICore | ATJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1604.290 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63675.080 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1137.230 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-3E75 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C4B1 |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6B34 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-CDC6 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-4A46 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7A3C |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-666B |
| kJapanese | コウ キョウ カク おぼえる |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kJapaneseKun | OBOERU SAMASU SATORU |
| kJapaneseOn | KAKU KOU |
| kJis0 | 7520 |
| kKangXi | 1137.230 |
| kKarlgren | 173 |
| kKorean | KAK KYO |
| kLau | 827 950 |
| kMandarin | jué |
| kMatthews | 1178 |
| kMeyerWempe | 999 1215 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ024272 |
| kMorohashi | 34973 |
| kNelson | 4297 |
| kPhonetic | 494 555 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6647+147.7.13 |
| kRSUnicode | 147.13 |
| kSBGY | 415.23 464.01 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+8990<kMatthews |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "觉" U+89C9 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 639.04 566.11 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | jué粵gok3 jiào粵gaau3 |
| kSpecializedSemanticVariant | U+658D<kFenn |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 6030 |
| kTang | *gak |
| kTotalStrokes | 20 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | giác |
| kXerox | 245:041 |
| kXHC1983 | 0571.021:jiào 0618.111:jué |