U+2F91 "⾑" Kangxi Radical West Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⾑
U+2F91 "⾑" Kangxi Radical West is a graphical representation of one of the 214 traditional Kangxi radicals, specifically the radical meaning "west" or "westward." This radical, derived from the ancient Chinese character for "west," is often used in Chinese-character-based scripts as a component in more complex characters, where it typically conveys the concept of direction or, by extension, ideas related to the setting sun and the western direction. In Unicode, this character belongs to the Kangxi Radicals block, serving as a standardized graphic for dictionary indexing and historical text analysis, distinct from the CJK unified ideograph for "west" (U+897F).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2F91 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Kangxi Radical West |
| Block | Kangxi Radicals |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "襾" U+897E CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⾑ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⾑ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBE 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2F91 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002F91 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2f91 |
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 | "襾" U+897E CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "襾" U+897E 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 | 897E |
| Radical | Yes |