What means
It helped build letters three times normal size.
HP's 2620 and 2640 screen terminals had an optional character set that arranged pieces like this in a 3-by-3 grid to make title lettering. On the terminal, this arc formed part of a larger shape; Unicode gives the piece a character of its own.
Don't confuse it with
4
Large Type Piece Upper Left Arc
shares “arc”, “large”, “piece”, “type”, “upper”
Large Type Piece Lower Left And Upper Left Arc
shares “arc”, “large”, “piece”, “type”, “upper”
Large Type Piece Raised Upper Left Arc
shares “arc”, “large”, “piece”, “type”, “upper”
Large Type Piece Lower Right And Upper Right Arc
shares “arc”, “large”, “piece”, “type”, “upper”
Questions people ask
1Why does appear as a box?
Your app may be using a font without a drawing for this character. The Cascadia Code font added the large type pieces in release 2404.03 (2024); the active font must support this character to display it.
How to type
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1CE24, 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 upper right arc”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1ce24, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𜸤CSS
\1CE24Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜸤
HTML hex
𜸤
CSS content
content: "\1CE24";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B8%A4
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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.