U+2EC0 "⻀" CJK Radical Grass Three Unicode Character

U+2EC0 "⻀" CJK Radical Grass Three is a Chinese character radical found in the Kangxi radical system, specifically representing an alternate or simplified form of the "grass" radical (艹) that is used as a component in many complex characters related to plants, herbs, and vegetation. This variant appears in certain CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) fonts and character sets as a distinct graphical form, where it is often written with three strokes or a compressed shape compared to the standard two-stroke grass radical. Its primary function is semantic, simplifying the visual structure of characters while preserving the original meaning associated with foliage or botanical concepts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2EC0
Version Added	3.0
Name	CJK Radical Grass Three
Block	CJK Radicals Supplement
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	⻀
HTML Hex Encoding	⻀
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xBB 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2EC0
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002EC0
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2ec0

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	8279
Radical	Yes