U+406F CJK Unified Ideo­graph-​406F

U+406F was added to Unicode in version 3.0 (1999). It belongs to the block U+3400 to U+4DBF CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Letter and is mainly used in the Han script. The Unihan Database defines it as to look at; to see; to inspect; (same as U+77B8 瞸) gazing into distance, having one eye smaller than the other, to look askance at; (Cant.) to close the eyes. Its Pīnyīn pronunciation is xī.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Wide East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. In text U+406F behaves as Ideographic regarding line breaks. It has type Other Letter for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.