U+2FA8 "⾨" Kangxi Radical Gate Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+2FA8 "⾨" Kangxi Radical Gate is a graphical representation of one of the 214 Kangxi radicals, specifically the 169th radical meaning "gate" or "door." It is used as a semantic component in Chinese characters, often appearing on the left side of a character to convey meanings related to barriers, entrances, or openings, and is distinct from the modern standard character 門 as it retains an older, simplified stroke structure for indexing and reference purposes in dictionaries and text processing.

General Properties

Code Point U+2FA8
Version Added 3.0
Name Kangxi Radical Gate
Block Kangxi Radicals
General Category Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Other Neutral
Decomposition Type Compat
Decomposition Mapping "門" U+9580 CJK Unified Ideograph-#

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ⾨
HTML Hex Encoding ⾨
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE2 0xBE 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2FA8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002FA8
C/C++/Java Escape \u2fa8

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 "門" U+9580 CJK Unified Ideograph-#
NFKC Simple Casefold "門" U+9580 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 9580
Radical Yes