U+8998 "覘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
U+8998 "覘" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character that primarily means "to spy on" or "to watch stealthily," and it also carries the sense of "to observe" or "to examine" in a broader context. Composed of the radical "見" (meaning "see" or "vision") on the right side, which suggests the action of looking, and a phonetic component on the left, this character historically appears in classical Chinese texts and is used in modern contexts to denote surreptitious observation or careful scrutiny. It is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block and is encoded as U+8998 in Unicode, representing a specific logographic symbol shared across East Asian scripts, though its usage is relatively rare in contemporary writing.