U+2FCA "⿊" Kangxi Radical Black Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⿊
U+2FCA "⿊" Kangxi Radical Black is one of the 214 traditional radicals used to categorize Chinese characters in the Kangxi dictionary, and it represents the concept of black or darkness. Composed of 12 strokes, this radical is often found in characters related to color, obscurity, or moral darkness, such as 黑 (hēi), meaning black or dark. Its form depicts a stylized representation of soot or a darkened flame, linking it to ideas of smudging or shadow. Within the Unicode standard, this radical is encoded in the Kangxi Radicals block, serving as a reference for character indexing and cultural heritage in digital text systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2FCA |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Kangxi Radical Black |
| Block | Kangxi Radicals |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "黑" U+9ED1 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⿊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⿊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBF 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2FCA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002FCA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2fca |
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 | "黑" U+9ED1 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "黑" U+9ED1 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 | 9ED1 |
| Radical | Yes |