What means
It marks an upper-right branch inside a large letter.
The first HP 2640A appeared in 1974; that terminal line also offered a built-in set of pieces for drawing headlines. Each large character used a 3×3 grid of smaller character cells.
This piece joins the other cells in that grid. As Unicode text, it can sit in a plain-text file, but display depends on a font that includes it; alone, it does not enlarge ordinary letters.
Don't confuse it with
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Large Type Piece Upper Left Crotch
shares “crotch”, “large”, “piece”, “type”, “upper”
Large Type Piece Upper Left Arc
shares “large”, “piece”, “type”, “upper”
Large Type Piece Upper Left Corner
shares “large”, “piece”, “type”, “upper”
Large Type Piece Upper Terminal
shares “large”, “piece”, “type”, “upper”
Questions people ask
1Why does look like a box?
Your font may not include this character. A font with support for it is needed to display its shape.
How to type
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1CE26, 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 crotch”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1ce26, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𜸦CSS
\1CE26Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜸦
HTML hex
𜸦
CSS content
content: "\1CE26";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B8%A6
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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.