What 辶 means
辶 is a Japanese compatibility form of 辶. FA66 belongs to the JIS X 0213 compatibility set and preserves an interchange distinction in Japanese text; it adds no new meaning to the movement component.
In traditional character terminology, 辵 is the full walking radical, a component used to classify characters; 辶 is its component form. 辶 encodes a Japanese compatibility form of 辶, not a separate word.
Use 辶 for ordinary text; keep 辶 for exact legacy identity
Use 辶 in ordinary writing. Keep 辶 when a Japanese JIS X 0213 record, a font specimen, or a round-trip conversion depends on that exact compatibility form.
Compatibility normalization can replace 辶 with 辶 in stored or searched text. The exact distinction disappears after that transformation, so keep compatibility characters unnormalized through any step that must preserve the source form.
Technical and archival; it preserves Japanese text interchange rather than adding a conversational meaning.
Keep 辶 only when an exact Japanese compatibility form must survive.
Who writes 辶
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 辶 become 辶?
A compatibility-normalizing step can fold 辶 to 辶. Check whether an import or storage process applies compatibility normalization; skip that step when the Japanese legacy record needs the exact glyph.
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How to type or find 辶
- Search it as
- FA66 · U+FA66 · 辶 · 辶 · 辵 · JIS X 0213 · compatibility ideograph · walking radical
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
辶\FA66\uFA66 in languages that support this Unicode escape.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.