U+89CA "觊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
觊
U+89CA "觊" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily means "to covet" or "to hope for" something that is not rightfully one's own, often carrying a negative connotation of greedy desire. It is composed of the radical 见 (jiàn, meaning "see" or "view") on the right side, which relates to perception, and the phonetic component 岂 (qǐ, a questioning particle) on the left, suggesting its pronunciation as "jì" in Mandarin. This character appears in classical Chinese texts and modern usage, notably in the term 觊觎 (jìyú), which means "to have one's eyes on something with ill intent," such as another's possessions or position.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+89CA |
| 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 | 觊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 觊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xA7 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x89CA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000089CA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u89ca |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 27582E |
| kCangjie | UUBHU |
| kCantonese | gei3 |
| kDefinition | covet, long for, desire |
| kEACC | 27582E |
| kFourCornerCode | 2771 |
| kGB0 | 7473 |
| kHanYu | 63668.030 |
| kIICore | CG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 63668.030 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1139.051 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-6A69 |
| kTGH | 2013:4525 |
| kKangXi | 1139.051 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 6025 |
| kMandarin | jì |
| kPhonetic | 454* |
| kRSUnicode | 147'.6 |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 638.05 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 159.010:jì |
| kTotalStrokes | 10 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "覬" U+89AC CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | G |
| kXHC1983 | 0534.050:jì |