U+2FCE "⿎" Kangxi Radical Drum Unicode Character
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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
Name
Kangxi Radical Drum
Decomposition Mapping
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
Numeric Value
NaN
NFKC Casefold
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Han
Equivalent Unified Ideograph
9F13