What ㇓ means
It marks the vertical-left-falling stroke type. Chinese calls it 竖撇, “vertical then left-falling.” It is the first stroke of 月, “moon” or “month.”
The stroke predates its Unicode label. Hong Kong's Supplementary Character Set (an encoding standard) included 16 stroke symbols; a 2006 proposal to expand Unicode's set listed 20 more, including SP. As of 2026, some fonts make ㇓ resemble or 丿.
A technical label for describing and indexing Han-character 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 ㇓
- Also called
- 竖撇 · 豎撇
- Search it as
- SP stroke · shupie · vertical-left-falling stroke · slash
- 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.