What ⻰ means
It marks the dragon component in a character index.
A radical is the part a dictionary uses to group a character; remaining strokes narrow the list.
Why does ⻰ look like 龙?
They are related forms with different roles.
The Chinese dragon character appears on Shang oracle bones—animal bones inscribed for divination (17th–11th century BCE)—and Zhou bronze vessels (1100–256 BCE).
The Huainanzi, a Chinese compendium from the late 2nd century BCE, presents dragons as creators and auspicious beasts. Tang emperors wore dragon robes as symbols of power (618–907).
A technical reference symbol, not ordinary Chinese prose.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ⻰ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find ⻰
- Search it as
- dragon radical · ⻰ meaning
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⻰\2EF0Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.