What ㇂ means
It represents one continuous stroke, including its hooked ending.
Chinese characters are built from strokes: movements made without lifting the pen or brush. This one travels diagonally down toward the right, then hooks upward at the end. The Chinese name is 斜钩, written 斜鉤 in Traditional Chinese; XG abbreviates its Mandarin name, xié gōu.
These characters are also used in Japanese and, in some settings, Korean. The stroke symbol helps describe their written structure; it is not a replacement for a character containing it. For example, 我 means “I” or “me” in Chinese, but ㇂ alone does not.
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Worth knowing
- The original set of Unicode CJK stroke symbols came from Hong Kong's Supplementary Character Set of 2001. They allow individual stroke types to be represented as text.
Questions people ask
1Why do I see a square instead of ㇂?
Usually, the font cannot display it. Choose a font that supports the CJK Strokes block; support for ordinary Chinese characters does not guarantee support for these separate stroke symbols.
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How to type or find ㇂
- Also called
- 斜钩 · 斜鉤 · XG
- Search it as
- slanting hook · CJK stroke XG · 31C2
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
㇂\31C2Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.