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𜸟

large type piece crossbar

Large Type Piece Crossbar

𜸟 is a crossbar piece for an oversized HP terminal letter. It helped make headlines, but alone is only one stroke.

Text symbol

Search it as: hp 2640 · big letters · headline font · large text
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 𜸟 means

It filled one cell in a 3×3 headline letter.

In the 1970s, HP 2640-series terminals offered a large-character set in ROM, or read-only memory. Nine normal text cells formed each headline letter.

Don't confuse it with

━

Box Drawings Heavy Horizontal

Both can look like a thick horizontal rule; 𜸟 belongs to HP's large-letter set, while ━ draws box borders.

Questions people ask

Why might it display as a box?

Font support. A 2024 Cascadia Code thread records a Windows 10 user's report of new glyphs missing from Character Map after a manual install.

How to type 𜸟

Windows (Word)

Alt+XType 1CE1F, 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 “large type piece crossbar”.

Linux

Ctrl+Shift+UType 1ce1f, then Enter or Space.

HTML

𜸟

CSS

\1CE1F

Word 2024 for Windows

Type 1CE1F and press Alt+X; select the code first if it follows another character.

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

𜸟

HTML hex

𜸟

CSS content

content: "\1CE1F";

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

URL encoded

%F0%9C%B8%9F

On screen

Code points

JS .length

UTF-8 bytes

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

Families this belongs to

Legacy computing935 symbols

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