U+2F25 "⼥" Kangxi Radical Woman Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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