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⌕

telephone recorder

Telephone Recorder

⌕ is the telephone recorder symbol: it names equipment for recording phone calls, not the telephone itself. The device idea belongs to early telephone history: in 1877, Edison considered electrical recording of telephone calls; later wire and magnetic recorders also served dictation and answering services.

Text symbol

What ⌕ means

⌕ is the telephone recorder. Unicode classifies it as an “other symbol” — Unicode's shelf for signs that are neither maths, money nor punctuation and files it in the Miscellaneous Technical block; this site shelves it under Maths.

Its appearance depends on the font and text styling.

How it is encoded

⌕ is a single code point, U2315. In HTML that is ⌕, and in CSS \2315.

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 or find ⌕

Search it as: telephone recorder symbol · telephone recording · ⌕ meaning
Shows up in: Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

Windows (Word)

⎇Alt+XType 2315, then AltX 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 “telephone recorder”.

Linux

⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 2315, then Enter or Space.

HTML

⌕

CSS

\2315

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

⌕

HTML hex

⌕

CSS content

content: "\2315";

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

URL encoded

%E2%8C%95

On screen

Code points

JS .length

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

Maths & numbers1,835 symbols

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