U+2EE4 "⻤" CJK Radical Ghost Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⻤
U+2EE4 "⻤" CJK Radical Ghost is the Kangxi radical for "ghost" or "demon," used as a foundational component in Chinese and other CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) characters where it typically appears on the left side of a compound character. It represents the conceptual core of words related to spirits, supernatural beings, or eerie phenomena, and its form is derived from ancient seal script, where it depicted a figure with a large head and dangling limbs, symbolizing a ghostly entity. In Unicode, this radical belongs to the CJK Radicals Supplement block and serves to index and organize characters in dictionaries, connecting entries like "魅" (charm or bewitch) and "魂" (soul) back to the ghostly essence of this radical.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2EE4 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | CJK Radical Ghost |
| Block | CJK Radicals Supplement |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⻤ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⻤ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBB 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2EE4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002EE4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2ee4 |
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 | 9B3C |
| Radical | Yes |