U+2F8E "⾎" Kangxi Radical Blood Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⾎
U+2F8E "⾎" Kangxi Radical Blood is the graphic representation of the 143rd radical in the Kangxi system, which is based on the traditional Chinese character for blood (血). This radical is commonly used as a component in more complex characters, where it often conveys meanings related to blood, bodily fluids, or sacrifice. In standard texts, it typically appears in a stylized, compact form that retains the core visual elements of a vessel containing liquid. As a historical and structural element of written Chinese, it helps organize characters in dictionaries and provides semantic clues for learners and readers of the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2F8E |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Kangxi Radical Blood |
| Block | Kangxi Radicals |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "血" U+8840 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⾎ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⾎ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBE 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2F8E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002F8E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2f8e |
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 | "血" U+8840 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "血" U+8840 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 | 8840 |
| Radical | Yes |