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Is there a standard symbol that could be used to indicate that an item in a text is to be considered as a symbol or graphic component rather than a semantic component?

For example: to indicate that ⺘U+2E98 CJK RADICAL HAND is a symbol [CJK Radicals Supplement: SYMBOL]
while 扌U+624C is a character [CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-624C HAN CHARACTER]?

Or: to show that you are using ㇓U+31D3 CJK STROKE SP as a symbol and 丿U+4E3F CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E3F] as a semantic component?

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I give an answer to this question from the perspective of corpus linguistics. In corpus linguistics every token (word, punctuation, or symbol) is tagged with a part-of-speech (POS) tag. Common POS tagsets include a special tag for "symbol" that is used for symbols. For an overview of POS tagsets, see this answer

I have no knowledge about Chinese and I don't know Chinese POS tagsets, therefore I cannot be more concrete on your specific examples.

Sir Cornflakes
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