U+2EA2 "⺢" CJK Radical Water Two Unicode Character

U+2EA2 "⺢" CJK Radical Water Two is a variant form of the Kangxi radical for "water" (氵) and is used as a secondary radical in the complex system of Chinese character components. It appears in the upper or left portion of certain compound characters, often representing a simplified or altered shape of water that functions as a semantic element. This radical is distinct from the more common three-dot water radical (氵) and is classified under the "CJK Radicals Supplement" block, where it serves a historical and structural role in the decomposition of traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2EA2
Version Added	3.0
Name	CJK Radical Water Two
Block	CJK Radicals Supplement
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	⺢
HTML Hex Encoding	⺢
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xBA 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2EA2
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002EA2
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2ea2

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	6C3A
Radical	Yes