What ♴ means
The Society of the Plastics Industry, a trade group, introduced the seven numbered resin marks in 1988. Type 2 means high-density polyethylene, the rigid plastic in milk and detergent bottles. As of 2026, the standards group ASTM treats the mark as material identification, not a recycling guarantee.
Packaging shorthand for resin type.
Check local rules before binning it.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Recycling Symbol For Type-1 Plastics
Sibling code for type 1: polyethylene terephthalate (PET).
Recycling Symbol For Type-3 Plastics
Sibling code for type 3: polyvinyl chloride (PVC).
Recycling Symbol For Type-4 Plastics
Sibling code for type 4: low-density polyethylene.
Recycling Symbol For Type-5 Plastics
Sibling code for type 5: polypropylene.
Recycling Symbol For Type-6 Plastics
Sibling code for type 6: polystyrene.
Recycling Symbol For Type-7 Plastics
Sibling code for type 7: other plastics.
Combination ideas
3Type 2: high-density polyethylene, used for milk jugs.
HDPE item, widely accepted for recycling.
All seven plastic resin codes, 1 through 7.
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 ♴
- Search it as
- hdpe · hdpe 2 · plastic 2 · resin code · recycling 2 · pe-hd
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
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macOS
HTML
♴CSS
\2674Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
♴
HTML hex
♴
CSS content
content: "\2674";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%99%B4
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On screen
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Code points
1
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.