What is the difference between Kangxi Radical Old and Cjk Ideograph-8001?

Kangxi Radical Old is U+2F7C in the Kangxi Radicals block. Cjk Ideograph-8001 is U+8001 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 Old?

The HTML entity for Kangxi Radical Old (U+2F7C) is ⽼.

What is the HTML entity for Cjk Ideograph-8001?

The HTML entity for Cjk Ideograph-8001 (U+8001) is 老.

Are Kangxi Radical Old and Cjk Ideograph-8001 the same Unicode character?

No. Kangxi Radical Old is U+2F7C (decimal 12156) and Cjk Ideograph-8001 is U+8001 (decimal 32769). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Kangxi Radical Old and Cjk Ideograph-8001?

Kangxi Radical Old (U+2F7C) encodes as E2 BD BC in UTF-8. Cjk Ideograph-8001 (U+8001) encodes as E8 80 81 in UTF-8.

Kangxi Radical Old vs Cjk Ideograph-8001

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.

⽼

Kangxi Radical Old

U+2F7C

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老

Cjk Ideograph-8001

U+8001

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Property Comparison

Property	Kangxi Radical Old	Cjk Ideograph-8001
Codepoint	`U+2F7C`	`U+8001`
Decimal	`12156`	`32769`
HTML Entity	`⽼`	`老`
HTML Decimal	`⽼`	`老`
HTML Hex	`⽼`	`老`
UTF-8	`E2 BD BC`	`E8 80 81`
UTF-16	`2F 7C`	`80 01`
UTF-32	`00002F7C`	`00008001`
CSS Escape	`\2F7C`	`\8001`
JS Escape	`\u2F7C`	`\u8001`
Python Escape	`\u2F7C`	`\u8001`
URL Encoded	`%E2%BD%BC`	`%E8%80%81`
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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