What means
It supplied one stroke for screen layouts on HP terminals. The HP 264x line set was a built-in group of pieces for drawing tables and forms.
The first HP 264x terminal, the HP 2640A, arrived in 1974. Unicode's source table maps this design to byte 2F in HP's Line set, carrying the old shape into modern text exchange and terminal emulation.
Don't confuse it with
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Lower Half Vertical Line With Three Tick Marks
shares “line”, “marks”, “three”, “tick”, “vertical”
Upper Half Vertical Line With Three Tick Marks
shares “line”, “marks”, “three”, “tick”, “vertical”
Left Half Horizontal Line With Three Tick Marks
shares “line”, “marks”, “three”, “tick”
Right Half Horizontal Line With Three Tick Marks
shares “line”, “marks”, “three”, “tick”
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.
How to type
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1CE15, 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 “vertical line with three tick marks”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1ce15, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𜸕CSS
\1CE15HTML
In HTML, `𜸕` is the hexadecimal numeric character reference.
JavaScript
Use `\u{1CE15}` in a JavaScript string; braces handle the five-digit code point.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𜸕
HTML hex
𜸕
CSS content
content: "\1CE15";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9C%B8%95
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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.