Upper-left diagonal type piece

𜸻 is a diagonal fragment in the large-letter font for HP terminals. Other pieces joined it to form screen headlines; alone, it is not a complete letter.

Text symbol

What 𜸻 means

It was part of the HP 2640 and 2620 large-character sets.

An HP terminal paired a screen and keyboard with a computer. In the 1970s, the HP 2640 and 2620 series offered an optional large-type character ROM, a chip storing letter shapes. A 1979 HP manual describes each large character as nine position-specific pieces displayed at three times normal size. The set was intended for terminal headlines; encoding the pieces separately preserves it as text.

A technical stroke from an HP character set for oversized display text.

On its own, 𜸻 is one part of an alphabetic letter, not a complete character.

Part of the collection

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Retro Computer & Teletext Symbols

Questions people ask

Why does 𜸻 show as a box on some devices?

It is recent: Unicode added it in version 16.0 (2024), and phones and computers whose fonts are older than that have nothing to draw it with. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.