U+2F3F "⼿" Kangxi Radical Hand Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⼿
U+2F3F "⼿" Kangxi Radical Hand is a graphic representation of the traditional radical that signifies the hand, and it is derived from the ancient Kangxi Dictionary system of 214 radicals used to organize Chinese characters. This specific radical often appears as a component in a wide range of characters related to actions or objects involving the hand, such as holding, hitting, or manipulating. In modern typography and digital text, it is encoded separately from its simplified and modern character variants to preserve historical accuracy for linguistic and scholarly purposes, particularly in contexts like dictionary indexing or classical Chinese literature.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2F3F |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Kangxi Radical Hand |
| Block | Kangxi Radicals |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "手" U+624B CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⼿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⼿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBC 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2F3F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002F3F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2f3f |
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 | "手" U+624B CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "手" U+624B 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 | 624B |
| Radical | Yes |