U+2F63 "⽣" Kangxi Radical Life Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⽣
U+2F63 "⽣" Kangxi Radical Life is a typographic representation of the Kangxi Radical for "life" or "birth," which originates from the Chinese character 生 (shēng). This radical conveys concepts of vitality, growth, and existence, and it is commonly found in characters related to living things or processes of generation. In the Unicode standard, it is categorized under the Kangxi Radicals block, serving as a static symbol for use in text and digital displays rather than as a full Chinese character with phonetic or semantic depth.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2F63 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Kangxi Radical Life |
| Block | Kangxi Radicals |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "生" U+751F CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⽣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⽣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBD 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2F63 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002F63 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2f63 |
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 | "生" U+751F CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "生" U+751F 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 | 751F |
| Radical | Yes |