阝

This article is about the Chinese radical. For the German eszett, see ß. For the Greek letter beta, see β.

阝 (Kangxi radical 163 & 170) is a character used in Kangxi writing which serves as the combining form of two distinct radicals, distinguished by whether it is on the left or right of a character. It is the combining form of Radical 170 (阜) when used on the left of a character, as in 阪, and of Radical 163 (邑) when used on the right of a character, as in 部.

In Unicode, ⻖ (U+2ED6) is listed as CJK RADICAL MOUND TWO^[1] (meaning 阜 - left) and ⻏ (U+2ECF) is listed as CJK RADICAL CITY^[2] (meaning 邑 - right). Most, but not all,^[3] fonts render them as almost identical. 阝 (U+961D), listed as CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-961D,^[4] is usually used to represent both.

References

1. Strehl, Manuel. "U+2ED6 CJK RADICAL MOUND TWO – Codepoints". Codepoints.net. Retrieved 30 May 2018.
2. Strehl, Manuel. "U+2ECF CJK RADICAL CITY – Codepoints". Codepoints.net. Retrieved 30 May 2018.
3. "U+2E80 - decodeunicode.org". Decodeunicode.org. Retrieved 30 May 2018.
4. Strehl, Manuel. "U+961D CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-961D – Codepoints". Codepoints.net. Retrieved 30 May 2018.