U+2FD5 "⿕" Kangxi Radical Flute Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⿕
U+2FD5 "⿕" Kangxi Radical Flute is a rare and somewhat enigmatic component of the Kangxi radical system, used in traditional Chinese character classification. It represents the radical for "flute" (often associated with the character 龠), which originally depicted a bamboo instrument with three holes and conveys meanings related to music, wind instruments, or harmony. This radical is one of the least common in the Kangxi set, appearing in only a handful of complex characters, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures that ancient texts and scholarly works referencing this radical can be accurately encoded and displayed digitally.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2FD5 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Kangxi Radical Flute |
| Block | Kangxi Radicals |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "龠" U+9FA0 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⿕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⿕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0xBF 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2FD5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002FD5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2fd5 |
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 | "龠" U+9FA0 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "龠" U+9FA0 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 | 9FA0 |
| Radical | Yes |