U+4FA6 "侦" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+4FA6 "侦" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character (hanzi) that primarily means "to scout," "to detect," or "to investigate." It is commonly used in modern Mandarin Chinese as a simplified form, with its traditional counterpart being 偵. The character is composed of the radical 亻 (person) on the left, indicating a human action, and the phonetic component 贞 on the right. You will frequently encounter it in words like 侦察 (zhēnchá, meaning "reconnaissance" or "scout") and 侦探 (zhēntàn, meaning "detective" or "to detect"), highlighting its role in contexts of observation, espionage, and criminal investigation.