U+2F85 "⾅" Kangxi Radical Mortar Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⾅
U+2F85 "⾅" Kangxi Radical Mortar is a pictographic representation of a mortar, the bowl-shaped vessel used with a pestle for grinding grains or herbs, and it corresponds to radical number 134 in the Kangxi dictionary system. This radical is rarely used as an independent character in modern Chinese but appears as a component in traditional characters, often carrying connotations related to grinding, crushing, or pounding. As part of the Kangxi Radicals block in Unicode, it serves to index and classify Chinese characters by their historical structural elements, preserving the orthographic heritage of classical texts and calligraphy.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2F85 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Kangxi Radical Mortar |
| Block | Kangxi Radicals |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "臼" U+81FC CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⾅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⾅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBE 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2F85 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002F85 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2f85 |
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 | "臼" U+81FC CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "臼" U+81FC 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 | 81FC |
| Radical | Yes |