U+2E9E "⺞" CJK Radical Death Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⺞
U+2E9E "⺞" CJK Radical Death is a character within the CJK Radicals Supplement block, representing the radical for death, which is used as a component in the construction of more complex Chinese characters. This radical is a reduced or variant form of the full character 歹 (dǎi), which signifies death, decay, or badness, and appears as the left-hand element in characters such as 死 (sǐ, meaning death) and 残 (cán, meaning cruel or incomplete). Its inclusion in Unicode allows for the correct representation and text processing of traditional Chinese character components, essential for lexicography, typography, and digital documentation of the Chinese writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2E9E |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | CJK Radical Death |
| Block | CJK Radicals Supplement |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⺞ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⺞ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBA 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2E9E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002E9E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2e9e |
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 | 6B7A |
| Radical | Yes |