What ⎅ means
It labels the centre function on a keyboard. The vertical stroke sits at the middle of an unfilled square. “White” in the character's name means unfilled, rather than a requirement to display it in white.
The symbol belongs to a system of keyboard labels that work across languages. A 1998 ISO/Unicode working document calls it the centre symbol and connects it to ISO/IEC 9995-7, an international standard for symbols representing keyboard functions.
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Questions people ask
1Why does it show up as an empty box?
Your font may lack this character. ⎅ has a vertical stroke inside its square; a plain replacement box can mean the font cannot display it. Try a font with technical-symbol support.
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Collections with ⎅
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How to type or find ⎅
- Search it as
- centering symbol · keyboard centre symbol · square with vertical line · U+2385
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
⎅CSS
\2385Microsoft Word
Type
2385, then press Alt+X to convert the code to ⎅.Linux
In supported text fields, press
Ctrl+Shift+U, type 2385, then press Enter.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⎅
HTML hex
⎅
CSS content
content: "\2385";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%8E%85
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On screen
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Code points
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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.