What ⽢ means
It indexes the character 甘, whose basic sense is “sweet.”
A radical is the component a character index uses to group entries. 甘部 is the Chinese label for that section.
甘 appears on late Shang oracle bones—inscribed bones and shells—and later in bronze inscriptions and seal script. Completed in 1716, the Kangxi Dictionary sorted characters by radical and remaining strokes; Japanese reference works later adopted the method. 甘 retains taste-related senses in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Japanese also uses it for willing acceptance and, in some words, mildness or softness. These meanings belong to 甘, not ⽢.
Dictionary and character-reference register, not ordinary prose.
For the ordinary character in text, use 甘; ⽢ is the index form.
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does ⽢ 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 ⽢
- Also called
- radical 99 · 甘部
- Search it as
- 甘 radical · Kangxi radical · U+2F62
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⽢\2F62Codes and encoding1 code points
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