U+2F18 "⼘" Kangxi Radical Divination Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+2F18 "⼘" Kangxi Radical Divination is a graphical representation of radical 25 out of the 214 traditional Kangxi radicals, which are used for indexing Chinese character dictionaries. This radical corresponds to the oracle bone script pictograph of a crack or fissure, symbolizing the ancient practice of divination through scapulimancy, where priests would interpret cracks on heated animal bones or turtle shells. As a component in modern Chinese characters, it often appears in characters related to fortune telling, predictions, or decision making, such as in the character 占 (to divine or to occupy). In Unicode, this radical serves as a distinctive character for encoding and rendering the specific pictographic form of this semantic element separately from its full character variations.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
⼘ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
⼘ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE2 0xBC 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x2F18 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00002F18 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u2f18 |
Unicode Properties