What ⧮ means
It depicts an outlined square marker with error bars. A 2000 Unicode proposal grouped it with five related characters under “Error bar symbols.” The proposal grew from the STIX Project, which aimed to provide shared fonts for mathematical, scientific, and technical publishing.
Related characters
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Error-Barred Black Square
Its square marker is filled rather than outlined; it is the filled-square member of the same error-bar set.
Error-Barred White Diamond
This member keeps the outlined marker and error bars but uses a diamond instead of a square.
Error-Barred White Circle
This member keeps the outlined marker and error bars but uses a circle instead of a square.
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
- error bar symbol · error bar square · LaTeX error-bar square
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
⧮CSS
\29EELaTeX with unicode-math
With the
unicode-math package loaded, write \errbarsquare in math mode.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⧮
HTML hex
⧮
CSS content
content: "\29EE";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%A7%AE
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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.