What ㇋ means
It labels a compound stroke in Chinese-character writing, not a word.
HZZP comes from the Mandarin pinyin initials of 横折折撇: 横 means horizontal, 折 a turn, and 撇 a stroke slanting down to the left. Together, they describe one stroke that goes horizontally, turns twice, then falls left. It appears in characters such as 及 and 建; in 及, it is the first stroke.
The encoded stroke set was derived from the Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set (HKSCS). It groups recurring strokes in Chinese characters for indexing and sorting, apart from full characters and radicals (components used to classify characters). Teaching standards can show a full character in different forms or use different stroke orders; that does not change what ㇋ labels.
This is technical notation for stroke analysis or character indexing; in an ordinary message, it reads like a label, not a conversational word.
Don't send it as a spoken Chinese word; it labels a stroke.
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ㇋ look different in another font?
It can: a font draws the character's outline, so another font may shape it differently or lack the glyph entirely.
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How to type or find ㇋
- Also called
- HZZP · 横折折撇 · 橫折折撇
- Search it as
- HZZP stroke · CJK stroke · ㇋ stroke
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
㇋\31CBCodes and encoding1 code points
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