U+2E93 "⺓" CJK Radical Thread Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+2E93 "⺓" CJK Radical Thread is a rarely used component found in certain traditional Chinese characters, representing the semantic element for thread or silk as a radical. It is a variant form of the standard radical 糸 (silk, thread), often appearing in complex or historical scripts but not in modern simplified Chinese orthography. This radical conveys a meaning related to fine fibers, textiles, or continuity, and its inclusion in Unicode preserves the integrity of archaic or specialized character representations for linguistic and scholarly purposes.

General Properties

Code Point U+2E93
Version Added 3.0
Name CJK Radical Thread
Block CJK Radicals Supplement
General Category Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ⺓
HTML Hex Encoding ⺓
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE2 0xBA 0x93
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2E93
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002E93
C/C++/Java Escape \u2e93

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 5E7A
Radical Yes