What ⼊ means
It marks the “enter” radical in Han-character dictionaries.
A radical is the part of a Han character that a dictionary uses to file it. The eighteenth-century Kangxi dictionary includes ⼊ among its 214 radicals.
Early Chinese writing traditions record the older 入 in divination inscriptions on bones, bronze inscriptions, manuscripts from the ancient state of Chu written on bamboo slips and silk, small-seal script, and Shuowen Jiezi, an early character dictionary. The wider surviving Chinese writing record begins in Late Shang, around 1250–1046 BCE.
Specialist dictionary notation.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does ⼊ 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 ⼊
- Search it as
- enter radical · radical 入 · ⼊ vs 入
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⼊\2F0ACodes and encoding1 code points
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