U+2FCE "⿎" Kangxi Radical Drum Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⿎
U+2FCE "⿎" Kangxi Radical Drum is one of the 214 traditional Kangxi radicals, representing the concept of a drum or drumming. This radical, numbered 207 in the Kangxi system, is derived from a pictograph of a drum with a stand and is used in Chinese characters to convey meanings related to sound, music, rhythm, and sometimes military signals, as seen in compounds like 鼓 (gǔ) meaning "drum" itself. Its shape retains a stylized image of a drum suspended above a stand, making it a visually distinctive component in both historical and modern East Asian typography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2FCE |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Kangxi Radical Drum |
| Block | Kangxi Radicals |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "鼓" U+9F13 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⿎ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⿎ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBF 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2FCE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002FCE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2fce |
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 | "鼓" U+9F13 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "鼓" U+9F13 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 | 9F13 |
| Radical | Yes |