What ⏘ means
A four-unit duration in a poem's rhythm.
Greek and Latin verse use patterns of long and short syllables; classical scansion means marking those patterns to study a poem's rhythm.
A specialist sign in Greek metrical analysis.
Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does ⏘ look different or disappear?
Font support. A font without this specialist glyph may show a box, a fallback design, or nothing.
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How to type or find ⏘
- Search it as
- Greek prosody symbol · metrical notation · classical scansion · metrical triseme · metrical pentaseme
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
⏘CSS
\23D8Windows
Enter 23D8 using a Unicode hexadecimal input method, then confirm.
Linux
Press CtrlShiftU, type 23d8, then press Enter or Space.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⏘
HTML hex
⏘
CSS content
content: "\23D8";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%8F%98
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.