What means
It helped build headline-sized letters. The HP 2640 was a computer terminal—a screen and keyboard used to work with a computer—introduced in 1974. By 1979, its optional Large Character Set joined nine adjacent cells in a 3-by-3 grid to form letters three times normal size.
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.
More like this
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How to type or find
- Search it as
- hp 2640 · hp large character set · large character set · terminal font · headline letters
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𜹏CSS
\1CE4FUnicode hex input
Enter 1CE4F using your editor’s Unicode hex input, if it offers that feature; the HP terminal used its own character-set code.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
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HTML hex
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CSS content
content: "\1CE4F";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B9%8F
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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.