What ⽟ means
It files characters under their jade part.
玉 appears in Late Shang oracle-bone inscriptions carved on animal bones and turtle shells. Neolithic jade objects served ritual, burial and rank roles; from the Neolithic to modern times, jade also stood for beauty and virtue.
Why is ⽟ different from 玉?
⽟ is the index form; 玉 is the full character for jade.
Unicode keeps the radical form distinct from the full character 玉.
Jade and king had distinct oracle-bone forms, though bronze inscriptions could blur them. By Warring States writing, a dot distinguished 玉 from 王.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ⽟ 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 ⽟
- Search it as
- 玉 · jade · jade radical · 玉部
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⽟\2F5FCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.