U+2EC4 "⻄" CJK Radical West Two Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⻄
U+2EC4 "⻄" CJK Radical West Two is a typographic variant or secondary form of the radical for "west" used in Chinese character indexing and some typefaces. This radical, which appears in the Kangxi Dictionary as one of the key components of Chinese characters, is associated with meanings related to the direction west, sunset, or things associated with that side. The "Two" designation indicates that this particular glyph is an alternate, often simplified or stylized, representation distinct from the primary form "⻄" (U+2EC3), and it can be found in historical or printed materials where a different brush stroke shape is required for clarity or aesthetic reasons.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2EC4 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | CJK Radical West Two |
| Block | CJK Radicals Supplement |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⻄ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⻄ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBB 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2EC4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002EC4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2ec4 |
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 | 897F |
| Radical | Yes |