What ㆟ means
It marks a return point in Japanese kanbun reading. Kanbun annotates Classical Chinese for Japanese word order. This mark helps when simpler return marks cannot show the needed sequence.
A Japanese return-mark example dates to 788; that does not date this glyph. Korean gugyeol, another way to annotate Classical Chinese for Korean reading, is a functional parallel. A 1912 Japanese education report helped consolidate kanbun teaching.
Unicode maps ㆟ as a compatibility form of 人; normalization can hide its annotation role.
Scholastic, used in annotated texts rather than conversation.
Don't confuse it with
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Questions 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.
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How to type or find ㆟
- Also called
- 人点 · jinten · kaeriten zin
- Search it as
- kanbun return mark · kaeriten
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
㆟\319F\u319F in code or JSON, or ㆟ in HTML.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.