U+2F44 "⽄" Kangxi Radical Axe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⽄
U+2F44 "⽄" Kangxi Radical Axe is the graphical representation of Kangxi Radical 69, which is also known as the "axe" radical and is derived from the Chinese character for an axe or hatchet. It is used primarily as a component in traditional Chinese character writing, appearing in characters such as 斤 (jīn), meaning "catty" or "axe," and serves as a semantic indicator in the Kangxi dictionary classification system. This radical is positioned among the 214 radicals established in the 18th century and retains its symbolic association with cutting or chopping tools across various compound characters in the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) script systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2F44 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Kangxi Radical Axe |
| Block | Kangxi Radicals |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "斤" U+65A4 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⽄ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⽄ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBD 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2F44 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002F44 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2f44 |
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 | "斤" U+65A4 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "斤" U+65A4 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 | 65A4 |
| Radical | Yes |