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𝌛

tetragram for resistance

Tetragram for Resistance

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𝌛 is a four-line figure called “resistance” in the Tai Xuan Jing, a Chinese divination classic completed around 2 BCE by Yang Xiong. Its opening explanation says yang—a cosmic force paired with yin—grows strong and pushes yin back. The book adapts the older Yijing (I Ching) into a divination system; during the Song Dynasty, scholars later reread that system through diagrams.

Text symbol

What 𝌛 means

𝌛 is the tetragram for resistance. Unicode classifies it as an “other symbol” — Unicode's shelf for signs that are neither maths, money nor punctuation and files it in the Tai Xuan Jing Symbols block; this site shelves it under Beliefs & culture.

Its appearance depends on the font and text styling.

How it is encoded

𝌛 is a single code point, U1D31B. In HTML that is 𝌛, and in CSS \1D31B.

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Questions people ask

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Why 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.

How to type or find 𝌛

Search it as
taixuanjing · taixuan · 太玄經 · 太玄 · 格 · ge
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 1D31B, then AltX to get 𝌛.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “tetragram for resistance”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 1d31b, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𝌛
CSS
\1D31B
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𝌛
HTML hex
𝌛
CSS content
content: "\1D31B";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9D%8C%9B
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On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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