U+2F23 "⼣" Kangxi Radical Evening Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⼣
U+2F23 "⼣" Kangxi Radical Evening is a graphic representation of the ancient Chinese radical known as "evening" or "sunset," which originally depicted the crescent moon and served as a visual metaphor for the time of dusk. This component is one of the 214 Kangxi radicals used in traditional Chinese character classification and appears in characters related to nightfall, dreams, or obscurity, such as 夕 (xī, meaning "evening") and 外 (wài, meaning "outside"). The character retains its cultural significance in East Asian scripts as a foundational element for composing more complex logograms, reflecting both linguistic structure and historical imagery of the fading daylight.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2F23 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Kangxi Radical Evening |
| Block | Kangxi Radicals |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "夕" U+5915 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⼣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⼣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBC 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2F23 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002F23 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2f23 |
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 | "夕" U+5915 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "夕" U+5915 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 | 5915 |
| Radical | Yes |