What ⾐ means
It indexes characters by their clothing component.
Old 衣 draws a crossed-front garment. The oldest examples are oracle-bone inscriptions (writing cut into bones used for divination), followed by bronze inscriptions, bamboo-and-silk manuscripts, and formal seal writing. The early Chinese character dictionary Shuowen Jiezi distinguishes upper 衣 from lower 裳; 衣 later broadens to mean clothing.
⾐ is the radical sign; 衣 is the ordinary character. 衤 is its left-side form. Use 衣 in ordinary words; reserve ⾐ for a radical index.
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does ⾐ 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 ⾐
- Search it as
- Kangxi clothes radical · ⾐ vs 衣 · 衤 left form
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⾐\2F90Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.