U+2FBB "⾻" Kangxi Radical Bone Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⾻
U+2FBB "⾻" Kangxi Radical Bone is one of the 214 traditional radicals used in the Kangxi system of Chinese character classification, representing the concept of bone. This radical is derived from the pictographic depiction of a skeletal structure and appears as a component in characters related to bones, the human body, or framework, such as 骼 (skeleton) and 體 (body). In modern Chinese, it is rarely used independently as a standalone character but serves as a semantic building block in compound characters, carrying the meaning of hard, structural support. Its Unicode encoding provides a standardized digital representation, ensuring consistent rendering across platforms for historical and linguistic studies of Chinese script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2FBB |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Kangxi Radical Bone |
| Block | Kangxi Radicals |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "骨" U+9AA8 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⾻ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⾻ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBE 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2FBB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002FBB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2fbb |
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 | "骨" U+9AA8 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "骨" U+9AA8 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 | 9AA8 |
| Radical | Yes |