What means
It contributes one joined stroke to a larger letter. Its left joint connects to a neighboring piece in the large-type design.
HP's 2620 and 2640 terminals used the large-type set for headlines. At an HP users' conference in 1976, the newly introduced set was described as making letters about three character cells tall and three times the normal width.
Unicode preserves these pieces as text characters, not as a command to enlarge a line. Their strokes form a large letter only when compatible pieces are laid out together.
Part of the collection
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why can I see a box instead?
The font being used may not include this character's drawing. Microsoft added large-type pieces to Cascadia Code in its April 2024 update; other fonts need their own glyphs for them.
More like this
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├Box Drawings Light Vertical And Right
Large Type Piece Centre Of K
Large Type Piece Lower Right And Upper Right Arc
Large Type Piece Diagonal Upper Left And Lower Left
Large Type Piece Stem With Crossbar
␀Symbol For Null
␁Symbol For Start Of Heading
␂Symbol For Start Of Text
␃Symbol For End Of Text
␄Symbol For End Of TransmissionHow to type or find
- Search it as
- large type · hp 2640 · hp 2620 · large character set · terminal headline · oversized terminal letters · terminal font
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
𜸹\1CE39Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.