What ⺓ means
It marks the thread radical used to index Han characters.
A radical is a dictionary filing label based on a recurring written part. The Kangxi system is a traditional Chinese character index; ⺓ is its thread-form variant, while ordinary text uses 幺.
Early Chinese inscriptions on bones and bronze vessels show 幺 as a thread-like form. Later dictionaries also gloss 幺 as small, faint, or young; those word meanings are not a standalone reading of ⺓.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
2⼳
Kangxi Radical Short Thread
A separate Kangxi radical, Short Thread. A 2019 Unicode proposal noted that the then-current charts gave ⺓ and ⼳ identical reference glyphs; their code points remain distinct.
CJK Unified Ideograph-5E7A
The ordinary Chinese character associated with this radical. Use 幺 in running text; ⺓ is the separate radical symbol.
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ⺓ 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 ⺓
- Search it as
- ⺓ · U+2E93 · 幺 · ⼳ · thread radical
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
⺓CSS
\2E93In code
In JavaScript or JSON string data, write
\u2E93; in HTML, use ⺓.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⺓
HTML hex
⺓
CSS content
content: "\2E93";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%BA%93
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.