What ⺙ means
It marks the right-side “rap” radical in character references.
Radicals group dictionary entries. An inscription carved on bones for divination (rituals used to seek answers) from around 1250–1000 BCE shows 攴 as a hand holding a striking tool. Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese dictionary, glosses 攴 as “a small strike.”
Unicode connects ⺙ with , a radical in a traditional Chinese dictionary system, and with 攵, an ideograph used on character right sides.
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does ⺙ 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 ⺙
- Search it as
- 攵 · 攴 · 反文旁 · bokuzukuri
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⺙\2E99Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.