What ⎁ means
It marks an underline that continues through spaces.
Epson FX-80 dot-matrix printers offered this mode in the 1980s. ISO/IEC 9995-7:2009 distinguishes it from discontinuous underlining, which skips spaces. The symbol names a style; it does not apply formatting.
Technical; it belongs to text-formatting vocabulary.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does ⎁ look missing?
Usually a font issue: the font may lack this character, leaving a blank, box, or fallback glyph.
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How to type or find ⎁
- Search it as
- continuous underline · underline symbol · printer underline · underline character
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
⎁CSS
\2381Microsoft Word
Type 2381, then press AltX to convert the hexadecimal code.
HTML or source code
HTML: ⎁ or ⎁; source code: \u2381.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⎁
HTML hex
⎁
CSS content
content: "\2381";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%8E%81
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On screen
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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.