U+2F6C "⽬" Kangxi Radical Eye Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+2F6C "⽬" Kangxi Radical Eye is a graphical representation of the Chinese radical for "eye," which is derived from the ancient pictograph of a human eye and is classified as the 109th radical in the Kangxi dictionary system. This radical is commonly used as a component in Chinese characters to indicate meanings related to vision, sight, or the eye itself, such as in characters like 目 (mù, eye) and 看 (kàn, to look). In Unicode, it resides in the Kangxi Radicals block and serves primarily as a typographic or indexing symbol, often employed in dictionary references and historical texts to denote the radical under which a character is categorized. Its shape resembles a vertical, rectangular form with internal horizontal strokes, mimicking the traditional calligraphic style of the radical.

General Properties

Code Point U+2F6C
Version Added 3.0
Name Kangxi Radical Eye
Block Kangxi Radicals
General Category Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral
Decomposition Type Compat
Decomposition Mapping "目" U+76EE CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ⽬
HTML Hex Encoding ⽬
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE2 0xBD 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2F6C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002F6C
C/C++/Java Escape \u2f6c

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 "目" U+76EE CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "目" U+76EE 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 76EE
Radical Yes