What ⌍ means
Its appearance can vary by font.
A 2013 Unicode review criticized chart-font versions that made the crop marks thicker and horizontally centered; older versions placed them clearly at the corners.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions 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.
How to type ⌍
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 230D, then Alt+X 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 “bottom left crop”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 230d, then Enter or Space.
HTML
⌍CSS
\230DCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⌍
HTML hex
⌍
CSS content
content: "\230D";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%8C%8D
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.