U+2FAF "⾯" Kangxi Radical Face Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⾯
U+2FAF "⾯" Kangxi Radical Face is a graphic representation of the Kangxi radical number 176, which signifies "face" or "surface" and is derived from the ancient Chinese character for the front of the head. This radical is a component in traditional Chinese characters, often conveying meanings related to countenance, appearance, or orientation, and it appears in the Kangxi Dictionary as one of the 214 radicals used for indexing. In modern typography and digital text, the character serves as a stylistic variant of the original radical form, distinct from its corresponding full character 面, and is primarily used for historical or technical purposes in Unicode encoding.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2FAF |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Kangxi Radical Face |
| Block | Kangxi Radicals |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "面" U+9762 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⾯ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⾯ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBE 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2FAF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002FAF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2faf |
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 | "面" U+9762 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "面" U+9762 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 | 9762 |
| Radical | Yes |