U+2F17 "⼗" Kangxi Radical Ten Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⼗
U+2F17 "⼗" Kangxi Radical Ten is a graphical representation of the ancient Chinese radical number 24, which symbolizes the number ten and is commonly associated with concepts of completeness, measurement, and the cardinal directions in traditional Chinese culture. This radical is derived from the original pictograph of a cross or a ten-like shape, and it appears as a component in various complex characters like "南" (south) and "古" (ancient), typically contributing nuances of quantity or spatial orientation. As part of the Kangxi radical system, it serves as a key reference for indexing and understanding Chinese characters, preserving its structural and semantic roots from classical calligraphy.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2F17 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Kangxi Radical Ten |
| Block | Kangxi Radicals |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "十" U+5341 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⼗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⼗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBC 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2F17 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002F17 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2f17 |
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 | "十" U+5341 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "十" U+5341 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 | 5341 |
| Radical | Yes |