What ⼚ means
It marks entry 27 in an index that groups Chinese characters.
The 18th-century Kangxi dictionary lists 214 radicals, with ⼚ at 27. A late Western Zhou bronze inscription (from an ancient Chinese dynasty) shows the form around 800 BCE.
The Shuowen Jiezi, an old Chinese dictionary, glosses 厂 as a rock ledge where a person could live.
A dictionary and writing-system term for a character component.
厂 is the related Han character, not the exact radical character ⼚.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ⼚ 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 ⼚
- Also called
- cliff radical · radical 27 · 厂字头
- Search it as
- U+2F1A · ⼚ vs 厂
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
⼚CSS
\2F1AHow do I type ⼚?
Find “Kangxi Radical Cliff” in a Unicode picker, or enter U2F1A in hex input.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⼚
HTML hex
⼚
CSS content
content: "\2F1A";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%BC%9A
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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.