Sometimes I find awesome in unexpected places. Check out these great Unicode glyphs… In the U+2F00 to U+2FEF range there’s a set of characters known as the Kangxi Radicals.

Yeah, I mostly like them for their names.

• ⼃ — KANGXI RADICAL SLASH
• ⼈ — KANGXI RADICAL MAN
• ⼑ — KANGXI RADICAL KNIFE
• ⼒ — KANGXI RADICAL POWER
• ⼖ — KANGXI RADICAL HIDING ENCLOSURE
• ⼢ — KANGXI RADICAL GO SLOWLY
• ⼪ — KANGXI RADICAL LAME
• ⼱ — KANGXI RADICAL TURBAN
• ⼶ — KANGXI RADICAL TWO HANDS
• ⼷ — KANGXI RADICAL SHOOT
• ⼽ — KANGXI RADICAL HALBERD
• ⽄ — KANGXI RADICAL AXE
• ⽍ — KANGXI RADICAL DEATH
• ⽎ — KANGXI RADICAL WEAPON
• ⽏ — KANGXI RADICAL DO NOT
• ⽕ — KANGXI RADICAL FIRE
• ⽚ — KANGXI RADICAL SLICE
• ⽛ — KANGXI RADICAL FANG
• ⽜ — KANGXI RADICAL COW
• ⽢ — KANGXI RADICAL SWEET
• ⽺ — KANGXI RADICAL SHEEP
• ⾃ — KANGXI RADICAL SELF
• ⾎ — KANGXI RADICAL BLOOD
• ⾘ — KANGXI RADICAL BADGER
• ⾾ — KANGXI RADICAL FIGHT
• ⿁ — KANGXI RADICAL GHOST
• ⿓ — KANGXI RADICAL DRAGON
• ⿔ — KANGXI RADICAL TURTLE
• ⿕ — KANGXI RADICAL FLUTE