U+2EDE "⻞" CJK Radical Eat Two Unicode Character

U+2EDE "⻞" CJK Radical Eat Two is a variant form of the Chinese radical 食 (shí), which signifies "food," "eat," or "eating" and serves as a key component in East Asian writing systems such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. This specific radical variant, found within the CJK Radicals Supplement block, is used as a secondary or simplified representation of the "eat" radical, often appearing in compound characters to denote concepts related to nourishment, dining, or consumption. Its design features a distinct two-stroke left-falling line and component structure, distinguishing it from the primary radical form while retaining the core semantic meaning associated with food and sustenance.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	⻞
HTML Hex Encoding	⻞
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE2 0xBB 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding	0x2EDE
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00002EDE
C/C++/Java Escape	\u2ede

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	2967F
Radical	Yes