U+2F11 "⼑" Kangxi Radical Knife Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⼑
U+2F11 "⼑" Kangxi Radical Knife is a graphical representation of one of the 214 traditional Kangxi radicals, specifically radical number 18, which conveys the general meaning of a knife, cutting, or a blade. This character is not a standard modern Chinese character used in everyday text but rather a stylistic, often enlarged form of the radical that appears in certain dictionaries, historical texts, and Unicode contexts to represent the radical independently. In modern Chinese writing, the equivalent radical is typically written as 刀, while U+2F11 preserves the older or more calligraphic shape used in Kangxi dictionary indexing and character decomposition.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2F11 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Kangxi Radical Knife |
| Block | Kangxi Radicals |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "刀" U+5200 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⼑ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⼑ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBC 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2F11 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002F11 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2f11 |
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 | "刀" U+5200 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "刀" U+5200 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 | 5200 |
| Radical | Yes |