U+2F9A "⾚" Kangxi Radical Red Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⾚
U+2F9A "⾚" Kangxi Radical Red is one of the 214 traditional Kangxi radicals, known as the radical for "red" or "crimson," and it corresponds to the modern Chinese character 赤 (chì). This radical is associated with meanings related to the color red, bareness, or sincerity, and it appears in characters typically at the bottom or left side, such as in 赧 (to blush) or 赦 (to pardon). Its shape, derived from ancient depictions of fire or a person standing in flames, visually conveys concepts of heat and brightness. In the Unicode standard, it is specifically encoded as a radical symbol used for indexing and reference in dictionaries and linguistic texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2F9A |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Kangxi Radical Red |
| Block | Kangxi Radicals |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "赤" U+8D64 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⾚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⾚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBE 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2F9A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002F9A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2f9a |
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 | "赤" U+8D64 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "赤" U+8D64 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 | 8D64 |
| Radical | Yes |