What is the difference between Kangxi Radical Dipper and Cjk Ideograph-6597?

Kangxi Radical Dipper is U+2F43 in the Kangxi Radicals block. Cjk Ideograph-6597 is U+6597 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 Dipper?

The HTML entity for Kangxi Radical Dipper (U+2F43) is ⽃.

What is the HTML entity for Cjk Ideograph-6597?

The HTML entity for Cjk Ideograph-6597 (U+6597) is 斗.

Are Kangxi Radical Dipper and Cjk Ideograph-6597 the same Unicode character?

No. Kangxi Radical Dipper is U+2F43 (decimal 12099) and Cjk Ideograph-6597 is U+6597 (decimal 26007). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Kangxi Radical Dipper and Cjk Ideograph-6597?

Kangxi Radical Dipper (U+2F43) encodes as E2 BD 83 in UTF-8. Cjk Ideograph-6597 (U+6597) encodes as E6 96 97 in UTF-8.

Kangxi Radical Dipper vs Cjk Ideograph-6597

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.

⽃

Kangxi Radical Dipper

U+2F43

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斗

Cjk Ideograph-6597

U+6597

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Property Comparison

Property	Kangxi Radical Dipper	Cjk Ideograph-6597
Codepoint	`U+2F43`	`U+6597`
Decimal	`12099`	`26007`
HTML Entity	`⽃`	`斗`
HTML Decimal	`⽃`	`斗`
HTML Hex	`⽃`	`斗`
UTF-8	`E2 BD 83`	`E6 96 97`
UTF-16	`2F 43`	`65 97`
UTF-32	`00002F43`	`00006597`
CSS Escape	`\2F43`	`\6597`
JS Escape	`\u2F43`	`\u6597`
Python Escape	`\u2F43`	`\u6597`
URL Encoded	`%E2%BD%83`	`%E6%96%97`
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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