What 廴 means
Treat 廴 as a building block, not a word. The long stride radical 廴 explains part of a character; 延 means extend, 建 means build, and 廷 means court.
The traditional account links it to an extended step. The earliest use discussed here comes from bronze inscriptions, inside 廷 and 建 rather than as an isolated 廴 in the sources checked; another reading sees a boundary around a ritual court.
As a standalone post, it signals character study, not ordinary chat.
If it arrives alone, ask for context; it is no emoji reaction.
Who writes 廴
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does 廴 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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How to type or find 廴
- Also called
- long stride · long-stride radical · yǐn
- Search it as
- 廴 · yin · long-stride · radical · 廴部 · 廴部首 · 廴输入
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
廴\5EF4Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.