What means
This stroke belongs inside a larger letter.
HP's January 1977 manual lists the set as an option for 2641A/2645A terminals. A 2021 Unicode proposal traces the pieces to HP terminal ROM chips that stored letter shapes for large headlines. This one is a short upper stroke.
Don't confuse it with
4
Large Type Piece Upper Terminal
shares “large”, “piece”, “terminal”, “type”, “upper”
Large Type Piece Short Lower Terminal
shares “large”, “piece”, “short”, “terminal”, “type”
Large Type Piece Upper Left Arc
shares “large”, “piece”, “type”, “upper”
Large Type Piece Upper Left Corner
shares “large”, “piece”, “type”, “upper”
Questions people ask
1Why does it show as a box on my screen?
It is a font-support issue. Unicode 16.0 recommends a suitable font for this symbol set; without , an app may show a placeholder while the text still contains the character.
How to type
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1CE23, then Alt+X to get .
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “large type piece short upper terminal”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1ce23, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𜸣CSS
\1CE23Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜸣
HTML hex
𜸣
CSS content
content: "\1CE23";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B8%A3
1
On screen
1
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.