What ⼅ means
It groups Han characters by a shared hook component.
The Shuowen, an early Chinese dictionary, included the corresponding form 亅 around 100 CE. In 1615, the Zihui dictionary reduced Shuowen's 540 categories to 214 radicals; the Kangxi Dictionary adopted that scheme in 1716. Chinese, Japanese, and Korean reference works use related radical-and-stroke lookup, though indexes for simplified characters can differ.
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does ⼅ 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 ⼅
- Also called
- radical 6
- Search it as
- hook radical · 亅 · U+2F05
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
⼅CSS
\2F05Unicode picker
Search a character map for U2F05.
Font support
A missing glyph may show as a box; use a font with Kangxi Radicals coverage.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⼅
HTML hex
⼅
CSS content
content: "\2F05";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%BC%85
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.