U+2F25 "⼥" Kangxi Radical Woman Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⼥
U+2F25 "⼥" Kangxi Radical Woman is a graphical representation of the 38th radical in the Kangxi system of Chinese character classification, which symbolizes a woman or female and is used as a building block in numerous traditional and simplified Chinese characters. This radical typically carries the connotation of femininity, womanhood, or gender-related concepts when it appears in compound characters, often positioned on the left side of a character in its abbreviated form. In historical contexts, it derives from a pictographic depiction of a kneeling female figure, reflecting ancient societal perspectives, and today it remains a common element in characters such as 好 (meaning good or well) and 妹 (meaning younger sister).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2F25 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Kangxi Radical Woman |
| Block | Kangxi Radicals |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "女" U+5973 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⼥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⼥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBC 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2F25 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002F25 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2f25 |
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 | "女" U+5973 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "女" U+5973 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 | 5973 |
| Radical | Yes |