What ㇒ means
It represents one downward sweep toward the left.
A stroke is a movement made without lifting the pen or brush. Chinese characters are built from strokes; for example, the first stroke of 人, meaning “person,” falls toward the left. ㇒ lets a lesson or reference describe that kind of movement on its own.
These characters also belong to Japanese and Korean writing traditions, where they are called kanji and hanja. The stroke symbol describes how a character is formed, rather than carrying that character’s word meaning.
Similar shapes can be different characters
㇒, and 丿 can look very close. Unicode labels the first two stroke types P and SP; 丿 is separately encoded as a Han character and is also used as a radical, a component under which dictionaries group characters. ノ is the Japanese katakana letter for the syllable “no.”
The slant and fullness of ㇒ can vary with the font. Choose it for stroke notation, and use the appropriate Han character or kana when writing those instead. Similar appearance does not make these characters interchangeable in text or searches.
A teaching and reference symbol for describing strokes.
Part of the collection
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?
Not every system ships a font for the CJK Strokes block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find ㇒
- Search it as
- 撇 · piě · CJK stroke P · 31D2
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
㇒\31D2Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.