What is the difference between Kangxi Radical Head and Cjk Ideograph-9996?

Kangxi Radical Head is U+2FB8 in the Kangxi Radicals block. Cjk Ideograph-9996 is U+9996 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 Head?

The HTML entity for Kangxi Radical Head (U+2FB8) is ⾸.

What is the HTML entity for Cjk Ideograph-9996?

The HTML entity for Cjk Ideograph-9996 (U+9996) is 首.

Are Kangxi Radical Head and Cjk Ideograph-9996 the same Unicode character?

No. Kangxi Radical Head is U+2FB8 (decimal 12216) and Cjk Ideograph-9996 is U+9996 (decimal 39318). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Kangxi Radical Head and Cjk Ideograph-9996?

Kangxi Radical Head (U+2FB8) encodes as E2 BE B8 in UTF-8. Cjk Ideograph-9996 (U+9996) encodes as E9 A6 96 in UTF-8.

Kangxi Radical Head vs Cjk Ideograph-9996

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.

⾸

Kangxi Radical Head

U+2FB8

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首

Cjk Ideograph-9996

U+9996

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Property Comparison

Property	Kangxi Radical Head	Cjk Ideograph-9996
Codepoint	`U+2FB8`	`U+9996`
Decimal	`12216`	`39318`
HTML Entity	`⾸`	`首`
HTML Decimal	`⾸`	`首`
HTML Hex	`⾸`	`首`
UTF-8	`E2 BE B8`	`E9 A6 96`
UTF-16	`2F B8`	`99 96`
UTF-32	`00002FB8`	`00009996`
CSS Escape	`\2FB8`	`\9996`
JS Escape	`\u2FB8`	`\u9996`
Python Escape	`\u2FB8`	`\u9996`
URL Encoded	`%E2%BE%B8`	`%E9%A6%96`
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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