What means
It was one stroke in a grid of same-width text cells.
A 1975 article in Hewlett-Packard Journal shows the HP 2640A line-drawing set drawing an office form. Unicode links this character to that HP set, carrying the same graphic into modern text.
A utilitarian drawing stroke; in ordinary writing it looks like a broken line.
In a message, read it as part of a drawing before treating it as punctuation.
Don't confuse it with
4Combination ideas
1Placed left then right, the two halves form a longer triple-dash rule.
Questions people ask
1Why does appear as a box?
Your font lacks its glyph and substitutes a placeholder; the text may still contain .
How to type
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1CE0E, 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 “right half triple dash horizontal”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1ce0e, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𜸎CSS
\1CE0ECodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜸎
HTML hex
𜸎
CSS content
content: "\1CE0E";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B8%8E
1
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.