U+2E90 "⺐" CJK Radical Lame Three Unicode Character

U+2E90 "⺐" CJK Radical Lame Three is a component found within the Kangxi radical system, specifically representing the radical known as "Lame Three" or sometimes "Upright Staff." This radical is a simplified variant of the full radical U+5F53 (尐) and is used in certain East Asian scripts, particularly in Chinese and Japanese character decomposition, to indicate a form that appears in the composition of other characters, such as those related to movement or a state of being crippled. It is one of the less common radicals and serves primarily as a building block in the structure of complex logograms rather than standing alone as an independent word.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2E90
Version Added	3.0
Name	CJK Radical Lame Three
Block	CJK Radicals Supplement
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	⺐
HTML Hex Encoding	⺐
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xBA 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2E90
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002E90
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2e90

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	5C22
Radical	Yes