What ⽎ means
It marks the weapon radical in the Kangxi character index.
Early forms of 殳 depict a hand holding a striking tool, interpreted as a bamboo or wooden weapon used from a chariot. Inscriptions on bone and bronze from the late Shang dynasty, an ancient Chinese ruling house, show two uses: bone records include 殳 in a personal name, while bronze inscriptions use it for the weapon. This evidence reaches back to around 1200 BCE, among the earliest surviving Chinese writing.
A specialist sign used in radical indexes and character study.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ⽎ show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the Kangxi Radicals block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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How to type or find ⽎
- Also called
- 殳 · ほこづくり · るまた
- Search it as
- weapon radical · shu · hokozukuri · rumata
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⽎\2F4ECodes and encoding1 code points
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