U+2F0B "⼋" Kangxi Radical Eight Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⼋
U+2F0B "⼋" Kangxi Radical Eight is a representation of one of the 214 Kangxi radicals, specifically the radical meaning "eight." This radical is derived from the Chinese character 八 (bā), which literally means the number eight, and it serves as a component in various Chinese characters where it often conveys a sense of division, separation, or distribution, as seen in characters like 分 (fēn, meaning "to divide") or 公 (gōng, meaning "public" or "fair"). As a historical and structural element in the Kangxi dictionary system, this radical is used to categorize and organize Chinese characters based on their visual components, making it a fundamental tool for understanding Chinese script etymology and lexicography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2F0B |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Kangxi Radical Eight |
| Block | Kangxi Radicals |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "八" U+516B CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⼋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⼋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBC 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2F0B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002F0B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2f0b |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "八" U+516B CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "八" U+516B CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| 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 | 516B |
| Radical | Yes |