觏 · gòu
meet or see unexpectedly
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
meet or see unexpectedly
- Mandarin
- gòu
- Cantonese
- gau3
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+89CF
- Radical
- 见 · 147
- Strokes
- 14 · Unihan
- Residual
- 10
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
14 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 觏
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
History & distinctions
Related forms
覯
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- gòu
- kCantonese
- gau3
- kDefinition
- meet or see unexpectedly
- kTotalStrokes
- 14
- kRSUnicode
- 147'.10
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+89AF
- kTGH
- 2013:5625
Readings across dictionaries
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- gòu 0391.090
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- gòu 116.170