U+2F14 "⼔" Kangxi Radical Spoon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⼔
U+2F14 "⼔" Kangxi Radical Spoon is a graphical representation of Radical 21, which depicts a spoon or ladle and is one of the 214 traditional Kangxi radicals used in Chinese character classification. This radical, originally derived from the ancient Chinese character for a spoon-shaped utensil, appears in characters like "匕" and often carries meanings related to spoons, ladles, or the act of scooping. In modern Unicode, it serves as a reference symbol for dictionaries and text processing, preserving the historical shape and function of this component in East Asian scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2F14 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Kangxi Radical Spoon |
| Block | Kangxi Radicals |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "匕" U+5315 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⼔ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⼔ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBC 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2F14 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002F14 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2f14 |
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 | "匕" U+5315 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "匕" U+5315 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 | 5315 |
| Radical | Yes |