What ⻱ means
It files characters under the turtle radical.
The 18th-century Kangxi dictionary lists 龜 as radical 213, an index heading.
Oracle-bone inscriptions—marks on bones and turtle shells used for divination—from the Late Shang show side and overhead views of the turtle graph.
Technical indexing form; in prose, use the language's full turtle character.
Can I write ⻱ for turtle? No; use the full character in running text.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ⻱ 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 ⻱
- Search it as
- radical 213 · Kangxi radical
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
⻱CSS
\2EF1Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⻱
HTML hex
⻱
CSS content
content: "\2EF1";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%BB%B1
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On screen
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Code points
1
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.