What ⺋ means
It is the seal radical’s bottom-position form.
⺋ appears in radical tables and technical descriptions, not ordinary prose.
卩 appears in oracle-bone inscriptions (bones marked for divination) and on bronze objects. One reading sees a kneeling person; another, a joint. Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese dictionary, describes 卪 as a credential: a token of identity and authority.
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does ⺋ 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 ⺋
- Search it as
- seal radical · radical 26 · 㔾 · 卩 · ⼙
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
⺋CSS
\2E8BUnicode or hex
Enter 2E8B through your editor’s Unicode hex input and convert. Otherwise, find ⺋ by name in its character map.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⺋
HTML hex
⺋
CSS content
content: "\2E8B";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%BA%8B
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.