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⑈

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OCR Dash

The MICR on-us symbol ⑈ marks account information in a check’s machine-readable line. “OCR Dash” is a misleading name: in E-13B, ⑉ is the dash.

Text symbol

Also called: on-us symbol
Search it as: MICR · E-13B
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What ⑈ means

It marks the on-us account field in a check’s MICR line. MICR means magnetic-ink character recognition; E-13B is its character set. Transit (⑆), amount (⑇), and dash (⑉) have separate marks.

Bank of America asked SRI, a research institute, to study electronic check handling in 1950; General Electric delivered ERMA sorting systems in 1959. A 2011 Unicode proposal noted the label mismatch: ⑈ is on-us, ⑉ is dash.

Specialized MICR notation, not ordinary punctuation.

A plain hyphen cannot replace the MICR dash in a check field.

Don't confuse it with

⑉

OCR Customer Account Number

⑉ carries the MICR dash role; ⑈ marks the on-us account field.

Questions people ask

Why 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 2448, 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 “ocr dash”.

Linux

Ctrl+Shift+UType 2448, then Enter or Space.

HTML

⑈

CSS

\2448

Unicode input

Enter U+2448 with a Unicode-aware editor’s code-point input; key steps vary by editor.

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

⑈

HTML hex

⑈

CSS content

content: "\2448";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%E2%91%88

On screen

Code points

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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.

Families this belongs to

Control pictures55 symbols

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