What ㇙ means
It labels a stroke, not a standalone character. In Chinese-character writing, it names one pen movement and helps describe or index characters.
Technical: it belongs in stroke descriptions and indexes.
If someone sends ㇙ alone, treat it as a stroke specimen; ask for context before reading it as a message.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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CJK Unified Ideograph-6C11
This is one of the Han-character examples associated with this stroke type.
CJK Unified Ideograph-98Df
This is one of the Han-character examples associated with this stroke type.
CJK Unified Ideograph-826F
This is one of the Han-character examples associated with this stroke type.
Questions people ask
1Why does ㇙ look different in different fonts?
It can. Font and fallback choices can change its shape or leave it missing; this display dependence was checked in 2026.
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How to type or find ㇙
- Also called
- shù tí
- Search it as
- Chinese stroke symbol
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
㇙
HTML hex
㇙
CSS content
content: "\31D9";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E3%87%99
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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.