U+2F80 "⾀" Kangxi Radical Brush Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⾀
U+2F80 "⾀" Kangxi Radical Brush is an ideographic component representing the Kangxi radical for "brush" or "writing brush," traditionally numbered as radical 129 in the Kangxi dictionary system. This character functions as a symbolic root used in the composition of over a hundred traditional Chinese characters, often conveying meanings related to writing, painting, or calligraphy, such as in the character 筆 (bǐ, meaning pen or writing instrument). It is typically rendered as a stylized pictograph of a hand holding a brush, and in modern typography, it appears as a standalone radical in Unicode's Kangxi Radicals block, primarily used in historical or linguistic contexts rather than as a standalone modern character.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2F80 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Kangxi Radical Brush |
| Block | Kangxi Radicals |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "聿" U+807F CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⾀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⾀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBE 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2F80 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002F80 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2f80 |
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 | "聿" U+807F CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "聿" U+807F 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 | 807F |
| Radical | Yes |