# CJK Radicals Supplement

CJK Radicals Supplement is a Unicode block containing alternative, often positional, forms of the Kangxi radicals. They are used as headers in dictionary indices and other CJK ideograph collections organized by radical-stroke.

## Block

CJK Radicals Supplement Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) :
| | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F |
| U+2E8x | ⺀ | ⺁ | ⺂ | ⺃ | ⺄ | ⺅ | ⺆ | ⺇ | ⺈ | ⺉ | ⺊ | ⺋ | ⺌ | ⺍ | ⺎ | ⺏ |
| U+2E9x | ⺐ | ⺑ | ⺒ | ⺓ | ⺔ | ⺕ | ⺖ | ⺗ | ⺘ | ⺙ | | ⺛ | ⺜ | ⺝ | ⺞ | ⺟ |
| U+2EAx | ⺠ | ⺡ | ⺢ | ⺣ | ⺤ | ⺥ | ⺦ | ⺧ | ⺨ | ⺩ | ⺪ | ⺫ | ⺬ | ⺭ | ⺮ | ⺯ |
| U+2EBx | ⺰ | ⺱ | ⺲ | ⺳ | ⺴ | ⺵ | ⺶ | ⺷ | ⺸ | ⺹ | ⺺ | ⺻ | ⺼ | ⺽ | ⺾ | ⺿ |
| U+2ECx | ⻀ | ⻁ | ⻂ | ⻃ | ⻄ | ⻅ | ⻆ | ⻇ | ⻈ | ⻉ | ⻊ | ⻋ | ⻌ | ⻍ | ⻎ | ⻏ |
| U+2EDx | ⻐ | ⻑ | ⻒ | ⻓ | ⻔ | ⻕ | ⻖ | ⻗ | ⻘ | ⻙ | ⻚ | ⻛ | ⻜ | ⻝ | ⻞ | ⻟ |
| U+2EEx | ⻠ | ⻡ | ⻢ | ⻣ | ⻤ | ⻥ | ⻦ | ⻧ | ⻨ | ⻩ | ⻪ | ⻫ | ⻬ | ⻭ | ⻮ | ⻯ |
| U+2EFx | ⻰ | ⻱ | ⻲ | ⻳ | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Notes 1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0 2.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points |||||||||||||||||

## History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the CJK Radicals Supplement block:
| Version | Final code points | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | IRG ID | Document |
| 3.0 | U+2E80..2E99, 2E9B..2EF3 | 115 | L2/97-025 | N1492 | N407 | Proposal Summary Form for Ideographic Radical Supplement, 1996-06-27 |
| 3.0 | U+2E80..2E99, 2E9B..2EF3 | 115 | | N1432 | N367 | Proposal Summary Form: Ideographic Radical Supplement, 1996-08-01 |
| 3.0 | U+2E80..2E99, 2E9B..2EF3 | 115 | | N1453 | | Ksar, Mike; Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1996-12-06), "9.8 Ideographic Radical Supplement", WG 2 Minutes - Quebec Meeting 31 |
| 3.0 | U+2E80..2E99, 2E9B..2EF3 | 115 | | | N429 | TCA's Position Concerning on the WG2's Comments of Ideographic Radical Supplement, 1997-01-15 |
| 3.0 | U+2E80..2E99, 2E9B..2EF3 | 115 | L2/97-023 | N1486 | N437 | IRG #8 Resolutions, 1997-01-16 |
| 3.0 | U+2E80..2E99, 2E9B..2EF3 | 115 | | N1489 | | Supplement to Ideographic Components and Composition Schemes, 1997-01-16 |
| 3.0 | U+2E80..2E99, 2E9B..2EF3 | 115 | | N1490 | N436 | Response to WG2 question on Ideographic Structure Characters, 1997-01-16 |
| 3.0 | U+2E80..2E99, 2E9B..2EF3 | 115 | L2/97-030 | N1503 (pdf, doc) | | Umamaheswaran, V. S.; Ksar, Mike (1997-04-01), "9.4", Unconfirmed Minutes of WG 2 Meeting #32, Singapore; 1997-01-20--24 |
| 3.0 | U+2E80..2E99, 2E9B..2EF3 | 115 | L2/97-114 | N1544 (html, doc) | N453 | Sato, T. K. (1997-04-08), Questions on the "Han structure method" described in WG2 N1490 (IRG N436) |
| 3.0 | U+2E80..2E99, 2E9B..2EF3 | 115 | | | N454 | Addition of new radicals, 1997-04-08 |
| 3.0 | U+2E80..2E99, 2E9B..2EF3 | 115 | | | N455 | Japanese Proposal to the Radical Supplement, 1997-04-14 |
| 3.0 | U+2E80..2E99, 2E9B..2EF3 | 115 | L2/97-162 | N1617 | N480 | Zhang, Zhoucai (1997-06-27), Ideographic Radical Supplement |
| 3.0 | U+2E80..2E99, 2E9B..2EF3 | 115 | L2/97-288 | N1603 | | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1997-10-24), "9.3", Unconfirmed Meeting Minutes, WG 2 Meeting # 33, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, 20 June – 4 July 1997 |
| 3.0 | U+2E80..2E99, 2E9B..2EF3 | 115 | L2/98-106 | N1732 | | Zhang, Zhoucai (1998-03-19), CJK Radical Suppliment [sic] |
| 3.0 | U+2E80..2E99, 2E9B..2EF3 | 115 | L2/98-332 | N1923 | | Combined PDAM registration and consideration ballot on WD for ISO/IEC 10646-1/Amd. 15, AMENDMENT 15: Kang Xi radicals and CJK radicals supplement, 1998-10-28 |
| 3.0 | U+2E80..2E99, 2E9B..2EF3 | 115 | L2/98-415 | | | Jenkins, John (1998-12-01), Comments on the CJK Radicals Supplement |
| 3.0 | U+2E80..2E99, 2E9B..2EF3 | 115 | L2/99-010 | N1903 (pdf, html, doc) | | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1998-12-30), "10.4", Minutes of WG 2 meeting 35, London, U.K.; 1998-09-21--25 |
| 3.0 | U+2E80..2E99, 2E9B..2EF3 | 115 | L2/98-419 (pdf, doc) | | | Aliprand, Joan (1999-02-05), "CJK Radicals Supplement", Approved Minutes -- UTC #78 & NCITS Subgroup L2 # 175 Joint Meeting, San Jose, CA -- December 1-4, 1998 |
| 3.0 | U+2E80..2E99, 2E9B..2EF3 | 115 | L2/99-073 | N1968 (html, doc) | | Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 3213, PDAM ballot on WD for 10646-1/Amd. 15: Kang Xi radicals and CJK radicals supplement, 1999-02-08 |
| 3.0 | U+2E80..2E99, 2E9B..2EF3 | 115 | L2/99-119 | | | Text for FPDAM ballot of ISO/IEC 10646, Amd. 15 - Kang Xi radicals and CJK radicals supplement, 1999-04-07 |
| 3.0 | U+2E80..2E99, 2E9B..2EF3 | 115 | L2/99-232 | N2003 | | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (1999-08-03), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 36, Fukuoka, Japan, 1999-03-09--15 |
| 3.0 | U+2E80..2E99, 2E9B..2EF3 | 115 | L2/99-252 | N2065 | | Summary of Voting on SC 2 N 3311, ISO 10646-1/FPDAM 15 - Kang Xi radicals and CJK radicals supplement, 1999-08-19 |
| 3.0 | U+2E80..2E99, 2E9B..2EF3 | 115 | L2/99-299 | N2121 | | Disposition of Comments Report on SC 2 N 3311, ISO/IEC 10646-1/FPDAM 15 AMENDMENT 15: Kang Xi radicals and CJK radicals supplement, 1999-09-20 |
| 3.0 | U+2E80..2E99, 2E9B..2EF3 | 115 | L2/99-300 | N2122 | | Paterson, Bruce (1999-09-21), Revised Text for FDAM ballot of ISO/IEC 10646-1/FDAM 15, AMENDMENT 15: Kang Xi radicals and CJK radicals supplement |
| 3.0 | U+2E80..2E99, 2E9B..2EF3 | 115 | L2/00-010 | N2103 | | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2000-01-05), Minutes of WG 2 meeting 37, Copenhagen, Denmark: 1999-09-13—16 |
| 3.0 | U+2E80..2E99, 2E9B..2EF3 | 115 | L2/00-044 | | | Summary of FDAM voting: ISO 10646 Amendment 15: Kang Xi radicals and CJK radicals supplement, 2000-01-31 |
| 3.0 | U+2E80..2E99, 2E9B..2EF3 | 115 | | N5122 | | "M68.12", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 68, 2019-12-31 |
| 3.0 | U+2E80..2E99, 2E9B..2EF3 | 115 | L2/19-212R | N5069R | | Lunde, Ken (2019-06-20), Proposal to change the font for the CJK Radicals Supplement & Kangxi Radicals blocks |
| 3.0 | U+2E80..2E99, 2E9B..2EF3 | 115 | L2/19-270 | | | Moore, Lisa (2019-10-07), "B.4.4 Proposal to change the font for the CJK Radicals Supplement and Kangxi Radicals blocks", UTC #160 Minutes |
| ↑ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names |||||||