What ䷒ means
It means approach: drawing near during a time of growth.
A hexagram has six lines in two three-line trigrams. ䷒ sets Earth above Lake. English readings stress approach, closeness, or a leader drawing near. The Zhou Yi judgment warns that a favorable phase turns by the eighth month.
The Zhou Yi is said to originate circa 1000 BCE. A Shanghai Museum Zhou Yi manuscript, about 300 BCE, shows the text circulating by then—not when this hexagram began.
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4Questions people ask
1Why does ䷒ 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.
How to type ䷒
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 4DD2, then Alt+X to get ䷒.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “hexagram for approach”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 4dd2, then Enter or Space.
HTML
䷒CSS
\4DD2Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
䷒
HTML hex
䷒
CSS content
content: "\4DD2";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E4%B7%92
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.