U+2F0C "⼌" Kangxi Radical down Box Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⼌
U+2F0C "⼌" Kangxi Radical down Box is a graphical representation of the Kangxi radical number 13, known as "down box" or "凵" (kǎn), which depicts an open container or a pit and is often used in Chinese characters to signify something that encloses or contains from below. This radical appears in characters related to receptacles, such as 凶 (xiōng, meaning "fierce" or "inauspicious") and 凵 itself, where it serves as a structural component that can be traced back to ancient oracle bone script. As part of the Unicode standard, it is encoded for use in digital text to represent this specific radical, which is one of the 214 radicals used in traditional Chinese character dictionaries for indexing and classification.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2F0C |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Kangxi Radical down Box |
| Block | Kangxi Radicals |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "冂" U+5182 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⼌ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⼌ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBC 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2F0C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002F0C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2f0c |
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 | "冂" U+5182 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "冂" U+5182 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 | 5182 |
| Radical | Yes |