What is the difference between Kangxi Radical Eight and Cjk Ideograph-516b?

Kangxi Radical Eight is U+2F0B in the Kangxi Radicals block. Cjk Ideograph-516b is U+516B 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 Kangxi Radical Eight?

The HTML entity for Kangxi Radical Eight (U+2F0B) is ⼋.

What is the HTML entity for Cjk Ideograph-516b?

The HTML entity for Cjk Ideograph-516b (U+516B) is 八.

Are Kangxi Radical Eight and Cjk Ideograph-516b the same Unicode character?

No. Kangxi Radical Eight is U+2F0B (decimal 12043) and Cjk Ideograph-516b is U+516B (decimal 20843). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Kangxi Radical Eight and Cjk Ideograph-516b?

Kangxi Radical Eight (U+2F0B) encodes as E2 BC 8B in UTF-8. Cjk Ideograph-516b (U+516B) encodes as E5 85 AB in UTF-8.

Kangxi Radical Eight vs Cjk Ideograph-516b

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.

⼋

Kangxi Radical Eight

U+2F0B

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八

Cjk Ideograph-516b

U+516B

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Property Comparison

Property	Kangxi Radical Eight	Cjk Ideograph-516b
Codepoint	`U+2F0B`	`U+516B`
Decimal	`12043`	`20843`
HTML Entity	`⼋`	`八`
HTML Decimal	`⼋`	`八`
HTML Hex	`⼋`	`八`
UTF-8	`E2 BC 8B`	`E5 85 AB`
UTF-16	`2F 0B`	`51 6B`
UTF-32	`00002F0B`	`0000516B`
CSS Escape	`\2F0B`	`\516B`
JS Escape	`\u2F0B`	`\u516B`
Python Escape	`\u2F0B`	`\u516B`
URL Encoded	`%E2%BC%8B`	`%E5%85%AB`
Category	`Other Symbol (So)`	`Other Letter (Lo)`
Block	`Kangxi Radicals`	`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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