U+2E89 "⺉" CJK Radical Knife Two Unicode Character

U+2E89 "⺉" CJK Radical Knife Two is a radical used in the Chinese writing system, specifically representing a variant form of the "knife" radical, which is typically associated with cutting, sharpness, or division. Unlike the more common knife radical that appears on the right side of characters, this version is a two stroke form that often appears on the left or top of complex characters, serving as a semantic component in characters related to tools, blades, or actions like cutting. It is part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Unified Ideographs block and is primarily used in historical or classical texts, as well as in modern dictionaries and font sets for indexing and composition purposes.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2E89
Version Added	3.0
Name	CJK Radical Knife Two
Block	CJK Radicals Supplement
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	⺉
HTML Hex Encoding	⺉
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xBA 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2E89
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002E89
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2e89

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
East Asian Width	Wide
Script	Han
Script Extensions	Han
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other
Equivalent Unified Ideograph	5202
Radical	Yes