What ⎵ means
It marks an underbracket's lower edge. The bracket sits below an expression.
In terminal emulation (software imitating text-only displays) for writing systems other than Chinese, Japanese, or Korean, ⎵ marks the bottom of vertical text; joins neighboring expressions in one cell.
Part of the collection
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsLower edge of an underbracket.
Don't confuse it with
2
Related characters
1
Combination ideas
1Upper and lower delimiters around vertical text.
Questions people ask
1Is ⎵ a whole bracket?
No. It is the lower piece; typesetting can draw a full underbracket.
More like this
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How to type or find ⎵
- Also called
- underbracket · bbrk
- Search it as
- under bracket · bottom bracket · math bracket · vertical text
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
⎵CSS
\23B5Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⎵
HTML hex
⎵
CSS content
content: "\23B5";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%8E%B5
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.