What ㇟ means
The downward line, bend and hook form a single stroke.
A stroke is made without lifting the pen or brush. Here the movement goes down, rounds the bottom corner, continues right and hooks upward. Its Chinese name is 竖弯钩, or 豎彎鉤 in traditional characters. The label SWG comes from the initials of its Mandarin name in pinyin: shù means vertical, wān means bend and gōu means hook.
These strokes build Han characters, also known as kanji in Japanese and hanja in Korean. Writing a complete character does not mean typing its strokes separately: ㇟ is a way to show this particular part on its own. A font can change the curve and proportions without changing the stroke it represents.
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why do I see a box instead of ㇟?
Your font or app may not support this character. The text can still contain the correct symbol; try a font that includes CJK strokes.
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How to type or find ㇟
- Also called
- SWG · 竖弯钩 · 豎彎鉤
- Search it as
- vertical bend hook · chinese stroke · vertical curved hook · rounded L · shùwāngōu
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
㇟\31DF31DF, then press Alt+X. A font with CJK stroke support is needed to display it.Why is ㇟ a box on my screen?
fsymbols draws rare signs with its own fonts, so they show here even where your device has none. An app or website without such a font shows an empty box (□) or a question mark instead. Turn our fonts off to see each sign as your device draws it by itself: a box here means a box in your chats and documents too.
Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.