U+89CF "" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+89CF "" 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.

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

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
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
kUnihanCore2020
G
kXHC1983
0391.090:gòu