U+89CF "觏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+89CF "觏" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily means "to meet unexpectedly" or "to encounter by chance," often carrying connotations of a rare or fortuitous meeting. It is composed of the radical 見 (jiàn, meaning "see" or "sight") on the right, combined with a phonetic component on the left, which together suggest the act of seeing someone happen upon another. Historically, this character appears in classical Chinese texts and poetry, where it describes serendipitous human interactions or the meeting of like-minded individuals. In modern usage, it remains a part of literary or formal vocabulary rather than everyday speech, and it is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the CJK Unified Ideographs block to support digital representation of Chinese writing.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
觏 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
觏 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE8 0xA7 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x89CF |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x000089CF |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u89cf |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII |
29307D |
| kCangjie |
TBBHU |
| kCantonese |
gau3 |
| kDefinition |
meet or see unexpectedly |
| kEACC |
29307D |
| kFourCornerCode |
5741 |
| kGB0 |
7477 |
| kHanYu |
63672.060 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian |
63672.060 |
| kIRGKangXi |
1139.051 |
| kIRG_GSource |
G0-6A6D |
| kTGH |
2013:5625 |
| kKangXi |
1139.051 |
| kMainlandTelegraph |
6026 |
| kMandarin |
gòu |
| kPhonetic |
589* |
| kRSUnicode |
147'.10 |
| kTGHZ2013 |
116.170:gòu |
| kTotalStrokes |
14 |
| kTraditionalVariant |
"覯" U+89AF CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 |
G |
| kXHC1983 |
0391.090:gòu |