U+2EDF "⻟" CJK Radical Eat Three Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⻟
U+2EDF "⻟" CJK Radical Eat Three is a simplified variant of the radical commonly found in Chinese characters that relate to eating or food, derived from the character for "eat" (食). It specifically represents the third simplified form of this radical, often used as a component in complex characters to convey the idea of nourishment, consumption, or dining. This radical appears in the left-hand position of certain CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) characters, contributing to their meaning while maintaining a distinct and compact shape for use in modern typography and digital text encoding.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2EDF |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | CJK Radical Eat Three |
| Block | CJK Radicals Supplement |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⻟ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⻟ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBB 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2EDF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002EDF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2edf |
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 | 98E0 |
| Radical | Yes |