U+2EE0 "⻠" CJK Radical C-Simplified Eat Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+2EE0 "⻠" CJK Radical C-Simplified Eat is a specific typographic component used primarily in Chinese character dictionaries and indexing systems to represent the simplified form of the radical for "eat" or "food," known in full as the "C-Simplified Eat" radical. This character is part of the CJK Radicals Supplement block, which was designed to decompose complex Chinese characters into their constituent parts for easier reference and sorting. It distinctively represents the abbreviated version of the traditional radical that appears in simplified Chinese writing, such as in the character for "eat" (吃). While its visual form is a linear, shorthand adaptation, its purpose is purely functional for classification and not for general text communication.

General Properties

Code Point U+2EE0
Version Added 3.0
Name CJK Radical C-Simplified Eat
Block CJK Radicals Supplement
General Category Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ⻠
HTML Hex Encoding ⻠
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE2 0xBB 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2EE0
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002EE0
C/C++/Java Escape \u2ee0

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 9963
Radical Yes