What means
It supplies a diagonal stroke inside a larger letter.
In the 1970s, Hewlett-Packard’s 2640 and 2620 text terminals used large-type pieces to build oversized headlines. An HP manual printed in January 1977 lists an optional Large Character Set; a 2021 Unicode proposal maps this tile to the set’s “HP (Large) 21” entry.
Part of the collection
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why won’t large type pieces join vertically?
The font may lack the character, or row spacing may separate the pieces. In a January 2024 Visual Studio example, extra line gaps prevented vertical joins.
More like this
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╱Box Drawings Light Diagonal Upper Right To Lower Left
Large Type Piece Diagonal Lower Left
Large Type Piece Stem With Left Crossbar
Large Type Piece Lower Right And Upper Right Arc
Large Type Piece Stem With Left Joint
␀Symbol For Null
␁Symbol For Start Of Heading
␂Symbol For Start Of Text
␃Symbol For End Of Text
␄Symbol For End Of TransmissionHow to type or find
- Search it as
- large letters · big text · headline lettering · hp 2640 · hp 2620 · terminal lettering · broken chevron · less than sign · left angle · split chevron
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𜸸\1CE38Why is a box on my screen?
fsymbols draws rare signs with its own fonts, so they show here even where your device has none. An app or website without such a font shows an empty box (□) or a question mark instead. Turn our fonts off to see each sign as your device draws it by itself: a box here means a box in your chats and documents too.
Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.