U+89C7 "觇" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+89C7 "觇" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character historically pronounced like "chān" in Mandarin, meaning to spy, peep, or stealthily observe. This character is composed of the radical 见 (jiàn, meaning "see" or "view") and the component 占 (zhàn, related to divination or prediction), suggesting the act of furtively watching or investigating. It appears in classical Chinese texts, often in the context of reconnaissance or covert surveillance, and remains a part of the modern standard character set for writing in Chinese and occasionally in Japanese and Korean.

General Properties

Code Point	U+89C7
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	觇
HTML Hex Encoding	觇
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xA7 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding	0x89C7
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000089C7
C/C++/Java Escape	\u89c7

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	293066
kCangjie	YRBHU
kCantonese	zim1
kDefinition	peek; spy on, watch; investigate
kEACC	293066
kFourCornerCode	2761
kGB0	7472
kHanYu	63667.010
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63667.010
kIRGKangXi	1139.051
kIRG_GSource	G0-6A68
kTGH	2013:4185
kKangXi	1139.051
kMainlandTelegraph	6019
kMandarin	chān
kPhonetic	177*
kRSUnicode	147'.5
kTGHZ2013	036.090:chān
kTotalStrokes	9
kTraditionalVariant	"覘" U+8998 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	0117.020:chān