What ⼶ means
It labels the two-hands component in Chinese character dictionaries.
The oracle-bone forms of 彝 are ancient inscriptions on bones used for divination. Scholars interpret 廾 there as paired hands presenting an offering; 𠬞 is a related written form.
The Kangxi tradition later used this as radical 55, a dictionary lookup label. Unicode lists 廾 as ⼶’s compatibility equivalent, a related form kept separate in character encoding.
Specialist reference use: it identifies a character component in radical-based lookup.
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does ⼶ 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 ⼶
- Search it as
- 廾 · radical 55 · two-hands radical
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⼶\2F36Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.