What ⻀ means
It identifies the grass radical in indexes. A radical is the part a dictionary uses to group characters. ⻀ is one reference form for grass, no. 140 in the old Chinese Kangxi dictionary index; written characters use 艹.
艸 is an older graph meaning grass. It appears in oracle-bone records—divination writing carved on bone or shell—around 1250–1000 BC and in the Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese dictionary, around 100 AD. and are other encoded forms of the grass radical. In 2026, regional conventions retain three- and four-stroke grass forms; Unicode's 2025 chart says its sample glyph is informational, not prescriptive.
Dictionary-index and character-analysis notation.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ⻀ show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the CJK Radicals Supplement block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find ⻀
- Search it as
- ⻀ · 艹 · 艸 · grass radical · grass component · Kangxi radical
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⻀\2EC0Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.