What is the difference between Cjk Radical Lame Two and Cjk Ideograph-5c23?

Cjk Radical Lame Two is U+2E8F in the CJK Radicals Supplement block. Cjk Ideograph-5c23 is U+5C23 in the CJK Unified Ideographs block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Cjk Radical Lame Two?

The HTML entity for Cjk Radical Lame Two (U+2E8F) is ⺏.

What is the HTML entity for Cjk Ideograph-5c23?

The HTML entity for Cjk Ideograph-5c23 (U+5C23) is 尣.

Are Cjk Radical Lame Two and Cjk Ideograph-5c23 the same Unicode character?

No. Cjk Radical Lame Two is U+2E8F (decimal 11919) and Cjk Ideograph-5c23 is U+5C23 (decimal 23587). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Cjk Radical Lame Two and Cjk Ideograph-5c23?

Cjk Radical Lame Two (U+2E8F) encodes as E2 BA 8F in UTF-8. Cjk Ideograph-5c23 (U+5C23) encodes as E5 B0 A3 in UTF-8.

Cjk Radical Lame Two vs Cjk Ideograph-5c23

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

⺏

Cjk Radical Lame Two

U+2E8F

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尣

Cjk Ideograph-5c23

U+5C23

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Property Comparison

Property	Cjk Radical Lame Two	Cjk Ideograph-5c23
Codepoint	`U+2E8F`	`U+5C23`
Decimal	`11919`	`23587`
HTML Entity	`⺏`	`尣`
HTML Decimal	`⺏`	`尣`
HTML Hex	`⺏`	`尣`
UTF-8	`E2 BA 8F`	`E5 B0 A3`
UTF-16	`2E 8F`	`5C 23`
UTF-32	`00002E8F`	`00005C23`
CSS Escape	`\2E8F`	`\5C23`
JS Escape	`\u2E8F`	`\u5C23`
Python Escape	`\u2E8F`	`\u5C23`
URL Encoded	`%E2%BA%8F`	`%E5%B0%A3`
Category	`Other Symbol (So)`	`Other Letter (Lo)`
Block	`CJK Radicals Supplement`	`CJK Unified Ideographs`
Script	`Han`	`Han`
Bidi Class	`ON`	`L`
Unicode Version	`3.0`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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