U+2F7C "⽼" Kangxi Radical Old Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⽼
U+2F7C "⽼" Kangxi Radical Old is a graphic symbol representing the 125th radical of the Kangxi system, which is used in traditional Chinese character classification and dictionary indexing. This radical, derived from the oracle bone script form of an aged person with long hair or a staff, conveys meanings related to old age, seniority, or authority in East Asian scripts. As a component, it appears in characters such as 老 (old) and 考 (to examine), where it influences semantic interpretation. As a dedicated Kangxi radical, this code point serves primarily as a textual icon for philological references, rather than as a standard writing character in modern text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2F7C |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Kangxi Radical Old |
| Block | Kangxi Radicals |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "老" U+8001 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⽼ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⽼ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBD 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2F7C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002F7C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2f7c |
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 | "老" U+8001 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "老" U+8001 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 | 8001 |
| Radical | Yes |