U+2FC4 "⿄" Kangxi Radical Salt Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⿄
U+2FC4 "⿄" Kangxi Radical Salt is a representation of the Kangxi radical number 197, which is associated with the concept of salt and derived from the archaic character for the mineral itself. This radical, though rarely used as a standalone character in modern Chinese, appears in a small number of traditional and historical compounds where it conveys the semantic field of saltiness, brine, or related chemical or culinary processes. In the Kangxi dictionary system, it serves as a structural component that aids in classifying and locating characters by their meaning, reflecting the logical organization of written Chinese around core material elements.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2FC4 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Kangxi Radical Salt |
| Block | Kangxi Radicals |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "鹵" U+9E75 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⿄ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⿄ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBF 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2FC4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002FC4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2fc4 |
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 | "鹵" U+9E75 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "鹵" U+9E75 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 | 9E75 |
| Radical | Yes |