What means
It drew table and form rules. In the HP 264x Line set, it sat among other graphic characters.
By the late 1970s, the set offered limited graphics; Unicode maps this form to slot 2C. The set used micro-vectors—short line paths. It also includes horizontal halves and a vertical line with three ticks.
Don't confuse it with
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Left Half Horizontal Line With Three Tick Marks
shares “horizontal”, “line”, “marks”, “three”, “tick”
Right Half Horizontal Line With Three Tick Marks
shares “horizontal”, “line”, “marks”, “three”, “tick”
Lower Half Vertical Line With Three Tick Marks
shares “line”, “marks”, “three”, “tick”
Upper Half Vertical Line With Three Tick Marks
shares “line”, “marks”, “three”, “tick”
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.
How to type
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1CE12, 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 “horizontal line with three tick marks”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1ce12, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𜸒CSS
\1CE12Word (Microsoft 365, 2024, 2021, 2019, 2016)
Type `1CE12`, then press `Alt`+`X`. If a box appears, choose a font that includes this glyph.
HP 264x
With the Line set installed, send code `2C`; `Ctrl`+`Shift`+`N` selects it, and `Ctrl`+`Shift`+`O` returns to Roman.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜸒
HTML hex
𜸒
CSS content
content: "\1CE12";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B8%92
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On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.