What means
It supplies the left stroke of an enlarged letter.
The HP 2640 was a terminal: a screen and keyboard connected to a host computer. Its optional large-character set was made for display headings.
An HP character-set guide documents the construction in 1975: each large letter used nine characters in a 33 grid. This piece fills the left-arm position; its neighbors complete the letter.
Technical and archival; it belongs to a terminal display font.
Part of the collection
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why 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.
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- large text · big text · terminal font · hp 2640 · large character set
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𜸞CSS
\1CE1EWord for Windows (as of 2026)
Type 1CE1E, then press AltX; Word converts the hexadecimal code to the character.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
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HTML hex
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CSS content
content: "\1CE1E";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B8%9E
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On screen
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Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.