This character is a Other Symbol and is mainly used in the Han script.
The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+2E8C offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Radical 42 or radical small (小部) meaning "small" or "insignificant" is one of the 31 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of three strokes.
In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 41 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
小 is also the 36th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China. Its inversed form ⺌ is the associated indexing component affiliated to the principal indexing component 小.
Representations
System
Representation (click value to copy)
Nº
11916
UTF-8
E2 BA 8C
UTF-16
2E 8C
UTF-32
00 00 2E 8C
URL-Quoted
%E2%BA%8C
HTML hex reference
⺌
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake
⺌
Encoding: BIG5HKSCS (hex bytes)
C8 DC
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)
FE 5D
RFC 5137
\u'2E8C'
Bash and Zsh inside echo -e
\u2E8C
C and C++
\u2E8C
C#
\u2E8C
CSS
\002E8C
Excel
=UNICHAR(11916)
Go
\u2E8C
JavaScript
\u2E8C
Modern JavaScript since ES6
\u{2e8c}
JSON
\u2E8C
Java
\u2E8C
Lua
\u{2E8C}
Matlab
char(11916)
Perl
"\x{2E8C}"
PHP
\u{2e8c}
PostgreSQL
U&'\2E8C'
PowerShell
`u{2E8C}
Python
\u2E8C
Ruby
\u{2e8c}
Rust
\u{2e8c}
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