What is the difference between Kangxi Radical Shell and Cjk Ideograph-8c9d?

Kangxi Radical Shell is U+2F99 in the Kangxi Radicals block. Cjk Ideograph-8c9d is U+8C9D 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 Shell?

The HTML entity for Kangxi Radical Shell (U+2F99) is ⾙.

What is the HTML entity for Cjk Ideograph-8c9d?

The HTML entity for Cjk Ideograph-8c9d (U+8C9D) is 貝.

Are Kangxi Radical Shell and Cjk Ideograph-8c9d the same Unicode character?

No. Kangxi Radical Shell is U+2F99 (decimal 12185) and Cjk Ideograph-8c9d is U+8C9D (decimal 35997). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Kangxi Radical Shell and Cjk Ideograph-8c9d?

Kangxi Radical Shell (U+2F99) encodes as E2 BE 99 in UTF-8. Cjk Ideograph-8c9d (U+8C9D) encodes as E8 B2 9D in UTF-8.

Kangxi Radical Shell vs Cjk Ideograph-8c9d

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.

⾙

Kangxi Radical Shell

U+2F99

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貝

Cjk Ideograph-8c9d

U+8C9D

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Property Comparison

Property	Kangxi Radical Shell	Cjk Ideograph-8c9d
Codepoint	`U+2F99`	`U+8C9D`
Decimal	`12185`	`35997`
HTML Entity	`⾙`	`貝`
HTML Decimal	`⾙`	`貝`
HTML Hex	`⾙`	`貝`
UTF-8	`E2 BE 99`	`E8 B2 9D`
UTF-16	`2F 99`	`8C 9D`
UTF-32	`00002F99`	`00008C9D`
CSS Escape	`\2F99`	`\8C9D`
JS Escape	`\u2F99`	`\u8C9D`
Python Escape	`\u2F99`	`\u8C9D`
URL Encoded	`%E2%BE%99`	`%E8%B2%9D`
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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