U+89CB "觋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+89CB "觋" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character pronounced as "xí" in Mandarin, which historically refers to a male shaman or spirit medium, particularly one who practices divination and communicates with spirits in Chinese folk religion. In classical texts, it is often paired with the female shaman character "巫" (wū), creating a distinction between male and female practitioners of such mystical arts. This character is composed of the radical "见" (jiàn, meaning "to see" or "to perceive") and the phonetic component "㐅" (xí), though its modern usage is rare, appearing mostly in historical or literary contexts rather than everyday language.

General Properties

Code Point	U+89CB
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	觋
HTML Hex Encoding	觋
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE8 0xA7 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding	0x89CB
UTF-32 Encoding	0x000089CB
C/C++/Java Escape	\u89cb

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	29306F
kCangjie	MOBHU
kCantonese	hat6
kDefinition	wizard
kEACC	29306F
kFourCornerCode	1711
kGB0	7474
kHanYu	63669.010
kIICore	CG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian	63669.010
kIRGKangXi	1139.051
kIRG_GSource	G0-6A6A
kTGH	2013:4773
kKangXi	1139.051
kMainlandTelegraph	6021
kMandarin	xí
kRSUnicode	147'.7
kTGHZ2013	394.010:xí
kTotalStrokes	11
kTraditionalVariant	"覡" U+89A1 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020	G
kXHC1983	1232.120:xí