U+2F4B "⽋" Kangxi Radical Lack Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+2F4B "⽋" Kangxi Radical Lack is the graphical representation of the 143rd radical from the Kangxi system, which is traditionally associated with the concept of insufficiency, absence, or a yawn. This radical is derived from the character 欠, which originally depicted a person with an open mouth, symbolizing a lack or a deficiency. In modern Chinese character composition, it appears as a component in characters related to yawning, owing, or being incomplete, such as 欠 (qiàn, meaning to owe or lack) and 欢 (huān, meaning joyful), where it contributes to the semantic field of wanting or exhaling.

General Properties

Code Point U+2F4B
Version Added 3.0
Name Kangxi Radical Lack
Block Kangxi Radicals
General Category Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral
Decomposition Type Compat
Decomposition Mapping "欠" U+6B20 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ⽋
HTML Hex Encoding ⽋
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE2 0xBD 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2F4B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002F4B
C/C++/Java Escape \u2f4b

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 "欠" U+6B20 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "欠" U+6B20 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 6B20
Radical Yes