U+2F4F "⽏" Kangxi Radical Do Not Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+2F4F "⽏" Kangxi Radical Do Not is a graphical representation of one of the 214 traditional Kangxi radicals, specifically meaning "do not" or "not," and it is derived from a stylized form of a hand or gesture indicating prohibition. This radical is not commonly used as a standalone character in modern Chinese or Japanese, but it appears as a semantic component in a small number of historical or classical Chinese characters, often carrying the sense of negation or forbiddance. In the Unicode standard, this character is classified under the Kangxi Radicals block, which serves to encode these ancient dictionary radicals for use in text processing, linguistic study, and digital typography, preserving the structural elements of East Asian script heritage.

General Properties

Code Point U+2F4F
Version Added 3.0
Name Kangxi Radical Do Not
Block Kangxi Radicals
General Category Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral
Decomposition Type Compat
Decomposition Mapping "毋" U+6BCB CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ⽏
HTML Hex Encoding ⽏
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE2 0xBD 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2F4F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002F4F
C/C++/Java Escape \u2f4f

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 "毋" U+6BCB CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "毋" U+6BCB 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 6BCB
Radical Yes