What ㇜ means
No: it labels a stroke, not a word. 撇折, the Chinese name for this PZ stroke, describes a left-falling sweep followed by a turn. It is a traditional Han stroke type, represented separately for technical description and indexing.
In the Han characters 公 and 弘, it is respectively the third and fourth stroke. Each complete character carries its own reading and meaning.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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CJK Stroke P
The basic 撇 stroke is a left-falling sweep. 撇折 begins with that same movement, then turns.
CJK Stroke Pd
The Chinese stroke name 撇點 shares the left-falling 撇 beginning but ends with 點, meaning “dot”; ㇜ turns instead.
CJK Stroke Pg
撇鉤 also begins with the left-falling 撇; 鉤 means “hook,” marking its hooked ending rather than ㇜’s turn.
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 ㇜
- Also called
- 撇折 · piě zhé · piezhe
- Search it as
- pz · Han stroke · CJK stroke
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
㇜CSS
\31DCUnicode hex input
In an editor with Unicode-hex input, enter 31DC and run its conversion command; the shortcut varies by editor. Pinyin input may not offer technical stroke signs.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
㇜
HTML hex
㇜
CSS content
content: "\31DC";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E3%87%9C
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On screen
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Code points
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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.