What means
Nine cells made one oversized character.
HP 2620- and 2640-series terminals had a Large Character Set for enlarged text. This piece filled the lower-left cell of a 3 3 layout; matching strokes and joins from the same set completed each letter.
An HP 2645A reference manual from 1978 demonstrates the arrangement with a large B. Unicode’s proposal identifies the pieces as parts of HP’s terminal character set.
Part of the collection
Questions people ask
1Can any font display this character?
No. A font or app needs a glyph for this character; otherwise it may show as a blank or replacement box. Microsoft’s April 2024 announcement says Cascadia Code 2404.23 includes the large-type pieces.
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How to type or find
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- hp · 2620 · 2640 · 2645a · terminal · headline · oversized · lettering
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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Windows
macOS
HTML
𜸽CSS
\1CE3DCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
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HTML hex
𜸽
CSS content
content: "\1CE3D";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B8%BD
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.