What ㇑ means
㇑ names one vertical stroke type. Chinese stroke terminology calls it 竖; Japanese kanji records label paths too. In 中 (“middle”), it marks a component, not the whole character.
A character-description language (CDL) stroke specification dates to 2003-11-04. A 2004-06-07 proposal set out basic Chinese, Japanese, and Korean strokes for indexing, type design, stroke counting, Song-style print, and modern mainland Chinese calligraphic norms.
Unicode 18.0 defines a slanted form selected by an invisible variation selector after ㇑. As of 2026-09-06, font support for this set varied; a missing glyph may show as a box.
Technical notation for indexing and describing Han characters.
It names a stroke, not a complete character.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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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 ㇑
- Search it as
- vertical stroke · 丨
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.