U+2F54 "⽔" Kangxi Radical Water Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⽔
U+2F54 "⽔" Kangxi Radical Water is a stylized graphical representation of the water radical as used in the Kangxi Dictionary, which is a standard reference for traditional Chinese characters. This radical, meaning water or liquid, is one of the 214 Kangxi radicals and appears as a component in many Chinese characters, often in a compressed or simplified form such as the three-dot water radical "氵" on the left side of a character. The symbol itself is derived from ancient scripts and serves as a typographic and historical reference for scholars, linguists, and digital text encoding, linking modern computing with centuries of written Chinese tradition.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2F54 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Kangxi Radical Water |
| Block | Kangxi Radicals |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "水" U+6C34 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⽔ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⽔ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBD 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2F54 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002F54 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2f54 |
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 | "水" U+6C34 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "水" U+6C34 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 | 6C34 |
| Radical | Yes |