U+2EC1 "⻁" CJK Radical Tiger Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⻁
U+2EC1 "⻁" CJK Radical Tiger is a Kangxi radical used in the Chinese writing system to represent the concept of a tiger, specifically serving as a component in the formation of complex Chinese characters. This radical, known as "tiger" in English, appears as a simplified or variant form that retains the symbolic essence of the animal, and it is typically found in characters related to tigers, ferocity, or strength. In Unicode, it belongs to the CJK Radicals Supplement block, where it is encoded for use in historical and modern text processing, enabling accurate representation of East Asian scripts that rely on these fundamental character building blocks.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2EC1 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | CJK Radical Tiger |
| Block | CJK Radicals Supplement |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⻁ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⻁ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBB 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2EC1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002EC1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2ec1 |
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 | 864E |
| Radical | Yes |