U+2EA8 "⺨" CJK Radical Dog Unicode Character

U+2EA8 "⺨" CJK Radical Dog is a variant of the Kangxi radical for "dog" or "beast," historically derived from the pictograph of a four-legged animal with a curled tail, and it is used as a component in traditional Chinese characters to indicate meanings related to canines or wild animals. This radical typically appears in the left side of compound characters, where it is often simplified from the full form "犬" to a compact stroke arrangement, maintaining its semantic role in character formation across East Asian writing systems such as Chinese and Japanese.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2EA8
Version Added	3.0
Name	CJK Radical Dog
Block	CJK Radicals Supplement
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	⺨
HTML Hex Encoding	⺨
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xBA 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2EA8
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002EA8
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2ea8

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	72AD
Radical	Yes