What means
It occupies one cell of a 3×3 letter grid.
The HP 2640 family began in 1974. Its Large Character Set made oversized headlines; a 1979 manual says each letter uses nine pieces.
A 2021 Unicode proposal maps it to slot 10 in HP’s Large font ROM, a chip holding character shapes; Unicode included it as text in 2024. Cascadia Code added these pieces in 2024; fonts lacking this glyph may show a missing-character box.
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
1Designed text art: a vertical stem column for a large letter.
Questions people ask
1Why 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 1CE29, 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”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1ce29, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𜸩CSS
\1CE29HTML
Write `𜸩` in HTML source to render this character.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜸩
HTML hex
𜸩
CSS content
content: "\1CE29";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B8%A9
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.