What ⑉ means
It divides fields in a machine-read check line. MICR means magnetic ink character recognition, the system used to read specially printed bank details. In the E-13B character set, ⑉ separates routing or account-number subfields.
Unicode's notes connect the E-13B MICR set to ISO 1004:1995. ISO 1073-1:1976 covers OCR-A, a different machine-readable character set; these are standards dates, not the mark's origin date.
Technical notation for check processing, not ordinary written punctuation.
Don't confuse it with
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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.
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How to type or find ⑉
- Also called
- MICR Dash Symbol
- Search it as
- MICR dash · E-13B dash · check separator · cheque separator · customer account number mark
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⑉\2449Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.