What ⼙ means
Early Chinese inscriptions show 卩 on Shang-era bones and Western Zhou bronze. The Han-era dictionary Shuowen Jiezi records a later form in small-seal script, an older standardized writing style.
Classical accounts describe 卩 as a split tally: matching halves used to prove authority. Another reading sees a kneeling person. Japanese and Korean glosses retain seal or authorization senses.
Technical and archival: it points to radical indexing or text-encoding work.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ⼙ 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 ⼙
- Search it as
- ⼙ · 卩 · seal radical · Kangxi radical
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
⼙CSS
\2F19Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⼙
HTML hex
⼙
CSS content
content: "\2F19";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%BC%99
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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.