U+2F3C "⼼" Kangxi Radical Heart Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⼼
U+2F3C "⼼" Kangxi Radical Heart is a graphical representation of the 61st radical in the Kangxi system of Chinese character classification, known as "heart" or "xīn". This radical, often depicted as a stylized heart shape, is used as a component in many Chinese characters related to emotions, thought, and mental states, such as 心 (heart) and 思 (thought). In modern Chinese, it can appear in various forms, including the standalone character 心 and its compressed variants like ⺗ found at the bottom of characters. As a Kangxi radical, it serves as a key organizational element in dictionaries and digital text encoding, preserving the historical and semantic roots of Chinese writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2F3C |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Kangxi Radical Heart |
| Block | Kangxi Radicals |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "心" U+5FC3 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⼼ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⼼ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBC 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2F3C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002F3C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2f3c |
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 | "心" U+5FC3 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "心" U+5FC3 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 | 5FC3 |
| Radical | Yes |