U+2F0E "⼎" Kangxi Radical Ice Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+2F0E "⼎" Kangxi Radical Ice is a graphical representation of the ancient Chinese radical for ice, known as "bīng" in Mandarin, which originally depicted icicles or frozen water. This radical is one of the 214 Kangxi radicals used in traditional Chinese character dictionaries, and it typically appears as a component in characters related to cold, freezing, or ice-related concepts, such as in the character for winter or frost. Visually, the radical resembles a two-stroke or three-stroke element that evokes a fissure or a droplet, reflecting its historical pictographic origins in the Chinese writing system.

General Properties

Code Point U+2F0E
Version Added 3.0
Name Kangxi Radical Ice
Block Kangxi Radicals
General Category Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral
Decomposition Type Compat
Decomposition Mapping "冫" U+51AB CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ⼎
HTML Hex Encoding ⼎
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE2 0xBC 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2F0E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002F0E
C/C++/Java Escape \u2f0e

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 "冫" U+51AB CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "冫" U+51AB 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 51AB
Radical Yes