What 丆 means
Its role depends on the writing tradition.
Chinese dictionaries treat 丆 as a variant of 厂. Korean gugyeol—a system of marks added to Classical Chinese, an older literary form of Chinese—uses it for -면, a conditional ending meaning “if/when.”
How is 丆 used in Korean gugyeol?
It represents the clipped top of 面.
Gugyeol let Korean readers add Korean readings and grammar to Classical Chinese texts. A Korean reference places the earliest surviving example of the wider practice in the 740s.
A specialist dictionary and annotation form; its role depends on the Chinese or Korean writing tradition.
Do not read it as one universal word: Chinese dictionaries and Korean gugyeol assign it different roles.
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Who writes 丆
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Questions people ask
1Why does 丆 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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- Also called
- kwukyel · gugyeol · gugyeolja myeon
- Search it as
- gugyeolja · myeon · gugyeol mark · Cangjie XMH · Cangjie MH · 厂 · 面
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
丆\4E06Codes and encoding1 code points
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