What ⻗ means
It marks the rain radical in character dictionaries.
Radicals group East Asian characters for lookup; ⻗ is the separate indexing form linked to 雨.
How old is the rain graph?
Its ancestor appears in late Shang oracle-bone records.
Oracle bones—animal bones or turtle shells used for divination—record Shang rites for rain.
The eighteenth-century Kangxi Dictionary, a Chinese reference book, grouped characters under 214 radicals, including 雨.
Technical character-reference 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 ⻗ 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 ⻗
- Search it as
- ⻗ · ⻗ meaning · 雨 radical · rain radical · 雪 under 雨 · 雨字头 · 雨部 · amekanmuri
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.