U+2F98 "⾘" Kangxi Radical Badger Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⾘
U+2F98 "⾘" Kangxi Radical Badger is a graphical representation of one of the 214 traditional Kangxi radicals, specifically meaning "badger" but more commonly known in its Chinese context as the radical for "mole" or "badger." This character is not used as a standalone word in modern Chinese but serves as a historical component in the composition of other characters, often associated with animals or creatures. It is encoded in the Unicode standard as part of the Kangxi Radicals block, designed for compatibility with legacy East Asian character sets and for use in scholarly or linguistic contexts where traditional radical indexing is required.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2F98 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Kangxi Radical Badger |
| Block | Kangxi Radicals |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "豸" U+8C78 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⾘ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⾘ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBE 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2F98 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002F98 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2f98 |
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 | "豸" U+8C78 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "豸" U+8C78 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 | 8C78 |
| Radical | Yes |