U+2E9F "⺟" CJK Radical Mother Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2E9F "⺟" CJK Radical Mother is a typographic symbol used as a radical in traditional Chinese character dictionaries, representing the concept of mother. It is derived from the more complex character 母 (mǔ), meaning "mother," and appears in the Kangxi radical system as the 80th radical. This radical is often found in characters related to female family roles, nourishment, or growth, and it forms a component in characters such as 每 (měi, "each") and 毒 (dú, "poison"), where it conveys semantic hints about origin or nurturing. As a printed form, it retains the distinctive shape of the original character but is simplified for use as a classifier in compound ideographs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2E9F |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | CJK Radical Mother |
| Block | CJK Radicals Supplement |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "母" U+6BCD CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⺟ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⺟ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBA 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2E9F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002E9F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2e9f |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "母" U+6BCD CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "母" U+6BCD CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| 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 | 6BCD |
| Radical | Yes |