What ⽍ means
It is an indexing form for characters that use 歹. A radical is a written part dictionaries use to group characters.
The Shuowen Jiezi, a classical Chinese character dictionary, explains 歹 as bone remains; another reading sees a cracked post or digging tool. In Chinese compounds, 歹 carries negative meanings: 歹徒 means “evildoer,” and 歹毒 means “vicious.”
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ⽍ 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 ⽍
- Search it as
- radical 78 · 歹 meaning · U+2F4D
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
⽍CSS
\2F4DUnicode escape for ⽍
In JavaScript,
\u2F4D inside a string evaluates to ⽍.HTML entity for ⽍
Use
⽍ or ⽍ in HTML markup.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⽍
HTML hex
⽍
CSS content
content: "\2F4D";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%BD%8D
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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.