U+2F43 "⽃" Kangxi Radical Dipper Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⽃
U+2F43 "⽃" Kangxi Radical Dipper is a graphic representation of the Kangxi radical number 68, which corresponds to the component "斗" meaning "dipper" or "ladle" and is derived from the ancient pictograph of a long-handled scoop used for measuring wine or grains. In modern Chinese, this radical appears in characters like 料 and 斜, often relating to measurement or volume, and its form retains the stylized simplicity of the original bronze script. As part of the Unicode Kangxi Radicals block, this character serves primarily for indexing and describing dictionary entries, distinguishing it from the standard CJK character 斗 (U+6597) which has a slightly different shape and semantic range.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2F43 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Kangxi Radical Dipper |
| Block | Kangxi Radicals |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "斗" U+6597 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⽃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⽃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBD 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2F43 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002F43 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2f43 |
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 | "斗" U+6597 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "斗" U+6597 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 | 6597 |
| Radical | Yes |