What ⽄ means
No. ⽄ is the index symbol; 斤 is the ideograph.
Shang-era oracle-bone inscriptions—records on bones used for divination—show 斤 as an axe pictograph. The Shuowen Jiezi, an early Chinese dictionary, defines 斤 as a wood-cutting axe.
The Kangxi axe radical groups characters by shared parts in radical-stroke indexes, then sorts by remaining strokes. ⽄ is its catalog label; use 斤 in Chinese words or measurements.
Technical, catalog-like: it labels an index category, not a word.
Use 斤 for Chinese words or weights; ⽄ labels an index.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ⽄ show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the Kangxi Radicals block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find ⽄
- Search it as
- ⽄ meaning · ⽄ vs 斤 · Kangxi axe radical · 斤 weight unit
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⽄\2F44Why is ⽄ a box on my screen?
fsymbols draws rare signs with its own fonts, so they show here even where your device has none. An app or website without such a font shows an empty box (□) or a question mark instead. Turn our fonts off to see each sign as your device draws it by itself: a box here means a box in your chats and documents too.
Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.