U+2F5C "⽜" Kangxi Radical Cow Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⽜
U+2F5C "⽜" Kangxi Radical Cow is a graphical representation of the 93rd radical in the Kangxi system of 214 radicals, which is derived from the Chinese character for cow or ox and is used as a component in other characters to convey meanings related to cattle, livestock, or strength. This radical appears in traditional Chinese and Japanese Kanji dictionaries as a header for characters like 牛 (cow) and 物 (thing), and it is distinct from the more common simplified form of the character, retaining its ancient pictographic shape that depicts the horns and head of an ox.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2F5C |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Kangxi Radical Cow |
| Block | Kangxi Radicals |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "牛" U+725B CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⽜ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⽜ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBD 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2F5C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002F5C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2f5c |
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 | "牛" U+725B CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "牛" U+725B 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 | 725B |
| Radical | Yes |