Kangxi Radical Walk

It marks movement or a route within a character.

⾡ is also called Kangxi radical 162. In a Chinese character, this walk radical contributes a movement clue; the other parts still determine the full meaning. An oracle-bone inscription—writing carved on animal bone or turtle shell—from the Shang period (ca. 1600–1046 BCE) shows a foot beside the old road sign 行. In later seal writing, an older Chinese script style, the road part was reduced to 彳, with 止, a foot sign, beneath it.

The Chinese character dictionary Shuowen Jiezi describes the form as walking and stopping in turns; Guangya and Yupian, also dictionaries, include a sense of running.

Why does ⾡ look different from 辵 and 辶?

They are related forms with different jobs in text.

⾡ is the Kangxi radical-block form. 辵 is its corresponding full written character; 辶 is the familiar component shape inside many characters. ⻌ is another specialized radical variant. Their related histories do not make them interchangeable.

A box or unfamiliar strokes can point to a font coverage problem: some installed fonts do not include this specialized radical block. The app's available fonts affect how it displays.

How do I type ⾡?

Enter its hexadecimal value, 2FA1. Windows Word/Outlook uses 2FA1 then Alt+X; macOS Unicode Hex Input uses Option plus 2FA1; GNOME/GTK uses Ctrl+Shift+U, then 2fa1, then Space or Enter.