What ⾮ means
It marks 非 as a dictionary radical. A radical is a filing heading; remaining strokes narrow the entry. Unicode’s radical-stroke indexes use the same method.
In Chinese words, 非 can mean “not,” “wrong,” or “opposition.” ⾮ names the index category; it is not an ordinary word with those meanings.
Technical: it signals radical indexing, not ordinary text.
For “not” or “wrong” in a sentence, use 非.
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Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does ⾮ 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 ⾮
- Also called
- radical 175 · 非部
- Search it as
- u+2fae · feiradical · feibu · wrong radical · kangxi radical
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
⾮CSS
\2FAECodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⾮
HTML hex
⾮
CSS content
content: "\2FAE";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%BE%AE
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On screen
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Code points
1
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.