What ⨠ means
It connects each matching output to an input.
A Z schema is a named description of a system state or operation. In Z, ? marks an input and ! an output.
Z notation grew from work in the 1970s to specify computer systems; piping is one operation in its schema calculus.
A specialist operator in Z’s schema calculus.
It is not a generic programming pipe.
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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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.
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How to type or find ⨠
- Search it as
- z pipe · z schema pipe · schema piping · z notation pipe symbol · z schema piping
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
⨠CSS
\2A20Type Z schema piping
In plain-text Z, write
S >> T with two ordinary greater-than signs.Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⨠
HTML hex
⨠
CSS content
content: "\2A20";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%A8%A0
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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.