U+2F0E "⼎" Kangxi Radical Ice Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⼎
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 |