U+2F57 "⽗" Kangxi Radical Father Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⽗
U+2F57 "⽗" Kangxi Radical Father is a stylized representation of the historical Kangxi radical meaning "father," which corresponds to radical number 88 among the traditional 214 radicals used in Chinese character dictionaries. This radical, depicted as a simplified pictograph of a hand holding a rod or a figure of authority, appears in characters related to paternal lineage, ancestry, or familial relationships, such as 爸 (bà, father). Encoded in the Unicode standard's Kangxi Radicals block, it serves as a typographic and scholarly reference for analyzing the composition of Chinese characters, where it often functions as a semantic component conveying the concept of fatherhood or elder male authority.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2F57 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Kangxi Radical Father |
| Block | Kangxi Radicals |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "父" U+7236 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⽗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⽗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBD 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2F57 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002F57 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2f57 |
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 | "父" U+7236 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "父" U+7236 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 | 7236 |
| Radical | Yes |