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⎚

clear screen symbol

Clear Screen Symbol

⎚ is the keyboard symbol for the clear screen function. In terminal use, Ctrl-L may perform that action, depending on the software; the symbol itself sets no universal shortcut.

Text symbol

Search it as: clear screen key · terminal clear · screen erase · keyboard symbol
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ⎚ means

It labels the function for clearing a screen.

ISO/IEC 9995-7:1994, an international keyboard-symbol standard, defines Clear Screen as a language-neutral function for removing what is displayed. Its specified orientation is part of the design. Unicode’s 1999 standardization paperwork lists it with keyboard functions such as Print Screen, Undo, Escape, and Next Page.

Don't confuse it with

⎙

Print Screen Symbol

⎙ is Print Screen, which sends displayed data to a printer; ⎚ clears it.

⌫

Erase To The Left

⌫ erases characters or acts at the cursor; ⎚ clears the display.

Questions people ask

Is ⎚ the same as Ctrl-L?

No. Ctrl-L sends the ASCII form-feed control character; software decides whether it clears a terminal. ⎚ labels the function.

How to type ⎚

Windows (Word)

Alt+XType 239A, 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 “clear screen symbol”.

Linux

Ctrl+Shift+UType 239a, then Enter or Space.

HTML

⎚

CSS

\239A

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

⎚

HTML hex

⎚

CSS content

content: "\239A";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%E2%8E%9A

On screen

Code points

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UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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