U+2EBD "⺽" CJK Radical Mortar Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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