U+2FB7 "⾷" Kangxi Radical Eat Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⾷
U+2FB7 "⾷" Kangxi Radical Eat is a representation of the Kangxi radical number 184, which corresponds to the concept of eating or food, and is derived from the traditional Chinese character 食. This radical is used as a semantic component in Chinese characters, often found on the left side of compounds such as 飯 (rice or meal) or 飲 (to drink), indicating a connection to nourishment, consumption, or meals. In Unicode, it belongs to the Kangxi Radicals block, which standardizes these historical radical forms for digital text rendering, preserving their distinct shape and calligraphic style from classical Chinese dictionaries.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2FB7 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Kangxi Radical Eat |
| Block | Kangxi Radicals |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "食" U+98DF CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⾷ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⾷ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBE 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2FB7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002FB7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2fb7 |
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 | "食" U+98DF CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "食" U+98DF 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 | 98DF |
| Radical | Yes |