Rho<sup>2</sup> Cancri is a solitary, yellow-hued star in the constellation Cancer. Its name is a Bayer designation that is Latinized from ÃÂ<sup>2</sup> Cancri, and abbreviated or Rho<sup>2</sup> Cnc or ÃÂ<sup>2</sup> Cnc. With an apparent visual magnitude of 5.22, it is visible to the naked eye on a dark night. Based upon an annual parallax shift of as seen from Earth, this star is located approximately from the Sun. At that distance, the visual magnitude is diminished by an extinction factor of 0.06 due to interstellar dust. It is moving further away with a line of sight velocity of +16 km/s.
At the age of about 234 million years, is an evolved, G-type giant star with a stellar classification of G8 III. It has an estimated 3.6 times the mass of the Sun and has expanded to 24 times the Sun's radius. It is radiating 310 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of . The star is spinning with a projected rotational velocity of 8 km/s.