What ⏢ means
To give a named technical sign its own character code.
An entity is a named reference software can use for a symbol. The 2004 proposal aimed to match entity names from ISO 9573 with encoded characters; for this entry, ⏢ is the name and ⏢ is its character.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions 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 23E2, 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 “white trapezium”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 23e2, then Enter or Space.
HTML
⏢CSS
\23E2Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⏢
HTML hex
⏢
CSS content
content: "\23E2";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%8F%A2
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.