What ㇔ means
It names the dot stroke used inside Han characters.
During the Han dynasty, learners practiced the dot alongside horizontal, vertical, falling, and turning strokes while copying texts.
Why does ㇔ look different?
The token labels a stroke type, not one fixed handwritten angle.
In Chinese calligraphy, the dot stroke has named brush forms. Kanji stroke analysis uses ㇔ for a short dash that can angle down-left or down-right, including forms in 心 and 灬. The symbol groups a stroke type; it does not prescribe one universal handwritten angle.
How do I type ㇔?
Search a Unicode-aware picker by name or hexadecimal code point.
Search a Unicode-aware picker for “CJK Stroke D.” If it accepts hexadecimal code points, enter 31D4; in HTML, use the character reference ㇔. Ordinary word-based input methods do not reliably produce this technical token because it is not a word read independently.
Technical and educational: by itself, ㇔ reads as a stroke-inventory token, not a conversational reaction.
Do not substitute 、; it is punctuation, not this stroke label.
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ㇔ 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 ㇔
- Also called
- dot stroke · short dash · diǎn
- Search it as
- Han character dot · Chinese dot stroke · kanji dot stroke · dian stroke
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
㇔\31D4㇔ in HTML.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.