What ⺶ means
It marks 羊 when that radical sits on the left.
On Shang oracle bones—bones inscribed for divination—around 1300 BCE, 羊 appears as a horned sheep drawing. Sheep were livestock and ritual offerings in ancient China; 羊 also appears inside compound characters. The 18th-century Kangxi Dictionary, a Chinese character dictionary, grouped entries by radicals, including 羊.
Technical notation for character analysis and dictionary indexing.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Does ⺶ show how to pronounce a character?
No. It identifies a component for character analysis or dictionary indexing; it gives no pronunciation.
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How to type or find ⺶
- Search it as
- Kangxi sheep · 羊 component · left-side form
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⺶
HTML hex
⺶
CSS content
content: "\2EB6";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%BA%B6
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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.