What 〿 means
It marked space left by a split character on screen.
Some older systems represented East Asian characters using two bytes, or units of computer data. When a character was split in the display, 〿 served as a visible filler. “Half fill” refers to that technical display role, not to half a word or half the meaning of a written character.
It does not work as ordinary spacing between words. If you need the full-width blank used in East Asian typography, that is the ideographic space, U3000.
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Questions people ask
1Why do I see a box instead of 〿?
Your font may not support this character. A missing-character box is a substitute supplied by the font or software, not the intended appearance of 〿. A font that includes it can display the actual mark.
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How to type or find 〿
- Search it as
- 303f · u+303f · half-fill character · display filler
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
〿\303FCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.