U+2ED8 "⻘" CJK Radical Blue Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⻘
U+2ED8 "⻘" CJK Radical Blue is a typographic component derived from the Chinese character for "blue" or "green," often associated with the color of plants and youth. It functions as a radical in the Kangxi system, primarily used in the composition of complex characters such as 静 (quiet) or 毒 (poison), where it occupies a side or top position to convey semantic nuances related to color, vitality, or even specific cultural concepts like purity or inexperience, though its meaning can shift within different compound characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2ED8 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | CJK Radical Blue |
| Block | CJK Radicals Supplement |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⻘ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⻘ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBB 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2ED8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002ED8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2ed8 |
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 | 9752 |
| Radical | Yes |