U+2F94 "⾔" Kangxi Radical Speech Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⾔
U+2F94 "⾔" Kangxi Radical Speech is a stylized representation of the 149th radical in the Kangxi dictionary, which corresponds to the word "speech" or "to speak" in Chinese. This radical, traditionally numbered 149 and containing seven strokes, serves as a foundational component in numerous Chinese characters related to language, communication, and verbal expression, such as "说" (to speak) and "话" (words or speech). In Unicode, it is classified as a Kangxi radical, used as a graphical element in East Asian character systems, and it appears in the Kangxi Radicals block specifically for indexing dictionary radicals rather than for modern writing, though its simplified form "讠" is common in Simplified Chinese.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2F94 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Kangxi Radical Speech |
| Block | Kangxi Radicals |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "言" U+8A00 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⾔ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⾔ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBE 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2F94 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002F94 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2f94 |
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 | "言" U+8A00 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "言" U+8A00 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 | 8A00 |
| Radical | Yes |