What 廾 means
It began as a two-hands sign.
廾 appears in Shang oracle-bone inscriptions and early bronze writing; oracle bones served for divination. It is an early form of 拱, a character for joining hands respectfully. In bronze and later texts, 共, with 廾 as its hand element, could mean offering, supplying, acting together, or respect; some uses later appear as 供 and 恭.
Historical and specialist; useful in old texts and character study.
Keep and 廿 distinct.
Who writes 廾
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does 廾 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 廾
- Also called
- two-hands radical · radical 55 · komanuki
- Search it as
- two hands · gǒng · Cangjie · JJ
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
廾CSS
\5EFECangjie
In Cangjie, type JJ; its code is 十十.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
廾
HTML hex
廾
CSS content
content: "\5EFE";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E5%BB%BE
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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.