U+2ED7 "⻗" CJK Radical Rain Unicode Character

U+2ED7 "⻗" CJK Radical Rain is a component of the Chinese writing system known as the Kangxi radical for rain, number 173. This radical originally depicts the idea of rain falling from clouds and serves as a semantic building block in many Chinese characters that relate to weather, moisture, and atmospheric phenomena. In modern Chinese text, it is typically used in a compressed form atop other characters, such as in 零 (zero) or 電 (lightning), where it contributes the core meaning associated with precipitation or sky conditions. As a Unicode character, it enables digital representation of this traditional radical for use in dictionaries, language learning tools, and historical text preservation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+2ED7
Version Added	3.0
Name	CJK Radical Rain
Block	CJK Radicals Supplement
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	⻗
HTML Hex Encoding	⻗
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xBB 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2ED7
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002ED7
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2ed7

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	96E8
Radical	Yes