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Glyph for U+2FB8
Source: Noto CJK

U+2FB8 Kangxi Radical Head

U+2FB8 was added in Unicode version 3.0 in 1999. It belongs to the block U+2F00 to U+2FDF Kangxi Radicals in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Symbol and is mainly used in the Han script.

The glyph is a compatibility version of the glyph Glyph for U+9996 CJK Unified Ideograph-9996. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+2FB8 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

Radical 185 or radical head (首部) meaning "head" is one of the 11 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 9 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 20 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

首 is also the 187th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 12216
UTF-8 E2 BE B8
UTF-16 2F B8
UTF-32 00 00 2F B8
URL-Quoted %E2%BE%B8
HTML hex reference ⾸
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ⾸
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) 81 39 9D 36

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age (age) 3.0 (1999)
Unicode Name (na) KANGXI RADICAL HEAD
Unicode 1 Name (na1) —
Block (blk) Kangxi Radicals
General Category (gc) Other Symbol
Script (sc) Han
Bidirectional Category (bc) Other Neutral
Combining Class (ccc) Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt) compatibility
Decomposition Mapping (dm) Glyph for U+9996 CJK Unified Ideograph-9996
Lowercase (Lower) ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc) Glyph for U+2FB8 Kangxi Radical Head
Lowercase Mapping (lc) Glyph for U+2FB8 Kangxi Radical Head
Uppercase (Upper) ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc) Glyph for U+2FB8 Kangxi Radical Head
Uppercase Mapping (uc) Glyph for U+2FB8 Kangxi Radical Head
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc) Glyph for U+2FB8 Kangxi Radical Head
Titlecase Mapping (tc) Glyph for U+2FB8 Kangxi Radical Head
Case Folding (cf) Glyph for U+2FB8 Kangxi Radical Head
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex) ✘
Alphabetic (Alpha) ✘
Bidi Control (Bidi_C) ✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M) ✘
Composition Exclusion (CE) ✘
Case Ignorable (CI) ✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF) ✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM) ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF) ✔
Changes When Lowercased (CWL) ✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT) ✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU) ✘
Cased (Cased) ✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex) ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI) ✘
Dash (Dash) ✘
Deprecated (Dep) ✘
Diacritic (Dia) ✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase) ✘
Emoji Component (EComp) ✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod) ✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres) ✘
Emoji (Emoji) ✘
Equivalent Unified Ideograph (EqUIdeo) Glyph for U+9996 CJK Unified Ideograph-9996
Extender (Ext) ✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict) ✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC) Glyph for U+2FB8 Kangxi Radical Head
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB) Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base) ✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext) ✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link) ✘
Hex Digit (Hex) ✘
Hyphen (Hyphen) ✘
ID Continue (IDC) ✘
ID Start (IDS) ✘
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB) ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST) ✘
IDSU (IDSU) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue) 0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start) 0
Ideographic (Ideo) ✘
InCB (InCB) None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC) —
Indic Positional Category (InPC) NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC) Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN) —
Join Control (Join_C) ✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE) ✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM) ✘
Math (Math) ✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar) ✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC) Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC) Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF) Glyph for U+9996 CJK Unified Ideograph-9996
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC) No
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF) Glyph for U+9996 CJK Unified Ideograph-9996
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC) No
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha) ✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI) ✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext) ✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC) ✘
Other ID Start (OIDS) ✘
Other Lowercase (OLower) ✘
Other Math (OMath) ✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper) ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM) ✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn) ✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS) ✘
Quotation Mark (QMark) ✘
Regional Indicator (RI) ✘
Radical (Radical) ✔
Sentence Break (SB) Other
Soft Dotted (SD) ✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm) ✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term) ✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo) ✘
Variation Selector (VS) ✘
Word Break (WB) Other
White Space (WSpace) ✘
XID Continue (XIDC) ✘
XID Start (XIDS) ✘
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC) ✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD) ✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC) ✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD) ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb) Glyph for U+2FB8 Kangxi Radical Head
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt) None
East Asian Width (ea) wide
Hangul Syllable Type (hst) Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc) —
Joining Group (jg) No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt) Non Joining
Line Break (lb) Ideographic
Numeric Type (nt) none
Numeric Value (nv) not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf) Glyph for U+2FB8 Kangxi Radical Head
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo) U