U+2F53 "⽓" Kangxi Radical Steam Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2F53 "⽓" Kangxi Radical Steam is a graphical representation of the Kangxi Radical number 84, which originally symbolizes steam, vapor, or breath rising upward in traditional Chinese script. As part of the Kangxi radicals, this character is not used as a standalone word in modern Chinese but serves as a structural component in compound ideographs, often conveying concepts related to air, gas, or energy. It appears in the Unicode block for CJK Kangxi Radicals, a system of 214 radicals used historically for categorizing Chinese characters in dictionaries, and it retains a stylized, calligraphic form that reflects its ancient origins in oracle bone and bronze inscriptions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2F53 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Kangxi Radical Steam |
| Block | Kangxi Radicals |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "气" U+6C14 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⽓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⽓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBD 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2F53 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002F53 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2f53 |
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 | "气" U+6C14 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "气" U+6C14 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 | 6C14 |
| Radical | Yes |