U+2F59 "⽙" Kangxi Radical Half Tree Trunk Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⽙
U+2F59 "⽙" Kangxi Radical Half Tree Trunk is a representation of the 90th radical in the Kangxi system of Chinese radical classification, known as "half tree trunk" or "爿" (pán). It originally depicts a split piece of wood or a wooden plank, signifying concepts related to splitting, half, or wooden objects, and is used as a component in traditional Chinese characters to convey these meanings. Although it is not commonly used as a standalone character in modern written Chinese, it appears in historical texts and as a semantic element in characters like "牆" (wall) and "牀" (bed), reflecting its origins in pictographic representation of a tree trunk divided lengthwise.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2F59 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Kangxi Radical Half Tree Trunk |
| Block | Kangxi Radicals |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "爿" U+723F CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⽙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⽙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBD 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2F59 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002F59 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2f59 |
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 | "爿" U+723F CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "爿" U+723F 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 | 723F |
| Radical | Yes |