# Does anyone have any idea what this symbol means?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 10, 2015, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-have-any-idea-what-this-symbol-means/737207 "2015-11-10T17:51:42Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 13, 2015, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-have-any-idea-what-this-symbol-means/737207/21 "2015-11-13T10:58:56Z")

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> [@steronz](#):
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> rotate it 90 degrees clockwise, it’s some sort of kanji symbol. No idea how to search for kanji characters.

Not a Chinese hanzi ; those rarely have lines that squiggly. Or circles for that matter. And since kanji are hanzi with the serial numbers filed off…  
But yes, because the Internet is wonderful you can search for those [by drawing them.](http://ce.linedict.com/#/cnen/home)

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