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𜹉

large type piece stem-4

Large Type Piece Stem-4

𜹉 is one component in the large-letter set made for Hewlett-Packard 2640 terminals, not a finished letter or message. The pieces build terminal headlines while ordinary text stays at its usual size.

Text symbol
Search it as
hp terminal · large type · large character · terminal font · large letters · headline text
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 𜹉 means

It supplies one part of a large terminal letter.

HP’s 1977 service manual lists the large-character set as an optional way to make terminal headlines. Each finished character uses nine pieces in a 3×3 grid. Unicode preserves the pieces for legacy-data conversion and terminal emulation.

Why does 𜹉 look like only a fragment?

Because the glyph is one tile, not a finished character.

A whole letter needs the other pieces in place. In a January 2024 feature request about the Cascadia Code font, its author noted that Visual Studio’s extra line spacing broke the vertical joins.

Don't confuse it with

4
𜸠
Large Type Piece Crossbar With Lower Stem
shares “large”, “piece”, “stem”, “type”
𜸨
Large Type Piece Stem With Right Crossbar
shares “large”, “piece”, “stem”, “type”
𜸩
Large Type Piece Stem
shares “large”, “piece”, “stem”, “type”
𜸶
Large Type Piece Stem With Left Crossbar
shares “large”, “piece”, “stem”, “type”

Questions people ask

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Why does 𜹉 show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type 𜹉

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1CE49, 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 stem-4”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1ce49, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𜹉
CSS
\1CE49
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜹉
HTML hex
𜹉
CSS content
content: "\1CE49";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B9%89
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.

Families this belongs to

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