What 🯷 means
Seven-segment displays give it its bar shape. The Atari ST was a personal-computer line; programs used this digit style apart from ordinary text, including for game scores.
A 1903 patent showed a telegraph printer forming letters and numbers from strokes; an eight-segment display was patented in 1908, and power stations used seven-segment indicators by 1910. A few bars showed numbers with simpler hardware than a text screen. Electronic displays made the style familiar in the 1970s.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does 🯷 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 🯷
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1FBF7, then Alt+X to get 🯷.
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 “segmented digit seven”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1fbf7, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🯷CSS
\1FBF7Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🯷
HTML hex
🯷
CSS content
content: "\1FBF7";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AF%B7
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.