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U+2FB8 · KANGXI RADICAL HEAD

Kangxi Radical Head

  • CodepointU+2FB8
  • NameKANGXI RADICAL HEAD
  • Decimal12216
  • BlockKangxi Radicals (U+2F00–U+2FDF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptHan
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version3.0 (1999)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthW — Wide
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+2FB8 (⾸) is KANGXI RADICAL HEAD, a symbol in the Kangxi Radicals block and belongs to the Han script. It was added in Unicode 3.0 (1999).

It is a compatibility variant of U+9996 首 (compatibility decomposition <compat>). NFC and NFD leave it alone, but NFKC and NFKD replace it with U+9996 首. Search engines, identifier checks and username systems that apply NFKC will treat the two as the same text.

Its East Asian Width is Wide, so terminals and monospaced layouts give it two columns.

How to type ⾸

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 BE B83 bytes
UTF-162FB81 code unit
UTF-3200002FB84 bytes
HTML decimal&#12216;
HTML hex&#x2FB8;
CSS\2FB8in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2FB8
JSON\u2FB8
Python\u2FB8
Python\N{KANGXI RADICAL HEAD}by name
Java / C#\u2FB8
C / C++\u2FB8universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2FB8}
Go\u2FB8
Ruby\u2FB8
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(12216)
URL-encoded%E2%BE%B8percent-encoded UTF-8
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Normalization forms

Normalizer →
NFCunchanged
NFDunchanged
NFKCU+9996 首
NFKDU+9996 首
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Looks similar

Characters that Unicode’s security data (UTS #39 confusables) lists as visually confusable with this one. Useful for spotting lookalike spoofing in URLs and usernames.

U+9996首CJK Unified Ideograph-9996
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Nearby in Kangxi Radicals

All in block →
U+2FB2⾲Kangxi Radical Leek U+2FB3⾳Kangxi Radical Sound U+2FB4⾴Kangxi Radical Leaf U+2FB5⾵Kangxi Radical Wind U+2FB6⾶Kangxi Radical Fly U+2FB7⾷Kangxi Radical Eat U+2FB9⾹Kangxi Radical Fragrant U+2FBA⾺Kangxi Radical Horse U+2FBB⾻Kangxi Radical Bone U+2FBC⾼Kangxi Radical Tall U+2FBD⾽Kangxi Radical Hair U+2FBE⾾Kangxi Radical Fight