What means
It is one segment in a grid that forms oversized letters.
In the HP 2640 large character set, a big letter occupied a 3-by-3 grid of smaller character cells. This diagonal segment filled one cell; the other pieces joined it into headline-size letters and numerals.
The design began as a dedicated display option for HP terminals; as a Unicode character, preserves one component of that old letter-building system. By itself, it is a fragment, not a complete letter.
Technical and archival; outside a constructed grid, it reads only as a diagonal fragment.
Alone, it cannot spell a large letter; it needs the other cell pieces.
Part of the collection
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsA diagonal fragment; no complete large letter is present.
Questions people ask
1Why does show as a box?
A box means the app's font lacks a glyph for . The text still carries the character; a font that supports it can display the diagonal segment.
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- Search it as
- hp 2640 · hp 2645 · large character set · hp large letters · terminal headline · hp diagonal character
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𜸫\1CE2BCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.