U+2F60 "⽠" Kangxi Radical Melon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⽠
U+2F60 "⽠" Kangxi Radical Melon is one of the 214 traditional Kangxi radicals used in Chinese character indexing and dictionary systems, representing the concept of a melon or gourd. This radical, derived from the pictographic shape of a hanging fruit with vines, is rarely used as a standalone character in modern Chinese but appears as a component in complex characters related to melons, squash, and other similar produce. Its Unicode encoding ensures consistent digital representation across platforms for historical and linguistic purposes, preserving the orthographic structure of Classical Chinese texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2F60 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Kangxi Radical Melon |
| Block | Kangxi Radicals |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "瓜" U+74DC CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⽠ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⽠ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBD 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2F60 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002F60 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2f60 |
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 | "瓜" U+74DC CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "瓜" U+74DC 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 | 74DC |
| Radical | Yes |