What means
It helped build pictures from character cells. On a text screen, each character takes one fixed-width cell; graphic marks arranged in those cells made rough pictures. The MZ-80K, released in 1978, supported this kind of graphics.
The Japanese MZ set separated single-line diagonals in its primary set from double-line versions in the alternate set. This upper-right-to-lower-left diagonal occupied alternate display code 76. Unicode preserves the distinction for old text and screen recreations.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does show as a box on some devices?
It is recent: Unicode added it in version 16.0 (2024), and phones and computers whose fonts are older than that have nothing to draw it with. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
More like this
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╳Box Drawings Light Diagonal Cross
╲Box Drawings Light Diagonal Upper Left To Lower Right
╱Box Drawings Light Diagonal Upper Right To Lower Left
Box Drawings Light Top And Upper Left
Box Drawings Light Bottom And Lower Left
Box Drawings Double Diagonal Upper Left To Lower Right
␀Symbol For Null
␁Symbol For Start Of Heading
␂Symbol For Start Of Text
␃Symbol For End Of Text
␄Symbol For End Of TransmissionHow to type or find
- Search it as
- slash · diagonal · box · line · semigraphics · mz-80k
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𜰟\1CC1F𜰟 as a numeric character reference in HTML.\u{1CC1F}; its four-digit escape cannot encode this code point alone.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.