What ⎶ means
It marks the cell where one vertical text run meets another.
A terminal emulator recreates the text-based interface of a terminal. The three terminal brackets , and ⎶ delimit vertical text runs in certain legacy emulators for non-Chinese, non-Japanese and non-Korean text. Unicode 16.0.0 distinguishes this use from ordinary brackets rotated for vertical Chinese, Japanese or Korean writing.
Related characters
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Questions 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.
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How to type or find ⎶
- Search it as
- vertical text delimiter · terminal bracket · bbrktbrk
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
⎶CSS
\23B6HTML
In the HTML Standard,
⎶ is the named character reference: the browser turns this name into ⎶.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⎶
HTML hex
⎶
CSS content
content: "\23B6";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%8E%B6
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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.