U+2EBD "⺽" CJK Radical Mortar Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⺽
U+2EBD "⺽" CJK Radical Mortar is a typographic representation of the radical for "mortar," a bowl-shaped vessel traditionally used in East Asian cultures for grinding or pounding ingredients with a pestle. This character belongs to the CJK Radicals Supplement block and serves as a graphic component in written Chinese, Japanese, and Korean scripts, where it often appears in compound characters related to tools, grinding, or crushing. Its form is stylized from the ancient pictograph of a mortar, and while it is rarely used as a standalone character today, it remains essential for indexing and dictionary lookup of complex CJK characters that incorporate this radical element.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2EBD |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | CJK Radical Mortar |
| Block | CJK Radicals Supplement |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⺽ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⺽ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBA 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2EBD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002EBD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2ebd |
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 | 26951 |
| Radical | Yes |