What ⚊ means
It marks the unbroken yang line in the Yijing.
The Yijing (also called the I Ching) is a Chinese book whose diagrams were used for divination, or seeking guidance through signs. The line notation is traced to the Zhou Yi, an early form of the Book of Changes dated to around 1000 BCE.
How does ⚊ fit into a larger diagram?
Its place and neighboring lines shape the larger figure.
Combining ⚊ with the broken yin line makes the four two-line figures; stacking lines creates the eight trigrams and six-line hexagrams. Read from the bottom up, a lone ⚊ is only one part of a larger pattern.
Philosophical readings treat yin and yang as complementary forces, linking yang with creative movement and yin with receptivity.
Specialist notation: its reading depends on its place in a Yijing diagram.
⚊ alone is one line in the notation, not the full circular yin-yang emblem.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ⚊ 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 ⚊
- Also called
- yang yao · solid yang line
- Search it as
- i ching line · yi jing line · iching symbol · yang stroke
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Codes and encoding1 code points
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