Miscellaneous Technical
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Miscellaneous Technical is a Unicode block ranging from U+2300 to U+23FF, which contains various common symbols which are related to and used in the various technical, programming language, and academic professions. For example:
- Symbol ⌂ (HTML hexadecimal code is ⌂) represents a house or a home.
- Symbol ⌘ (⌘) is a "place of interest" sign. It may be used to represent the Command key on a Mac keyboard.
- Symbol ⌚ (⌚) is a watch (or clock).
- Symbol ⏏ (⏏) is the "Eject" button symbol found on electronic equipment.
- Symbol ⏚ (⏚) is the "Earth Ground" symbol found on electrical or electronic manual, tag and equipment.
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Miscellaneous Technical | |
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Range | U+2300..U+23FF (256 code points) |
Plane | BMP |
Scripts | Common |
Symbol sets | Technical APL symbols Dentistry notation |
Assigned | 256 code points |
Unused | 0 reserved code points 2 deprecated |
Source standards | ISO 2047, ISO 9995-7 |
Unicode version history | |
1.0.0 (1991) | 45 (+45) |
1.0.1 (1992) | 43 (-2) |
1.1 (1993) | 122 (+79) |
3.0 (1999) | 154 (+32) |
3.2 (2002) | 207 (+53) |
4.0 (2003) | 209 (+2) |
4.1 (2005) | 220 (+11) |
5.0 (2006) | 232 (+12) |
5.2 (2009) | 233 (+1) |
6.0 (2010) | 244 (+11) |
7.0 (2014) | 251 (+7) |
9.0 (2016) | 255 (+4) |
10.0 (2017) | 256 (+1) |
Unicode documentation | |
Code chart ∣ Web page | |
Note: Two characters were removed from the Miscellaneous Technical block in version 1.0.1 during the process of unifying with ISO 10646.[1][2][3][4] |
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This article contains special characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols.
It also includes most of the uncommon symbols used by the APL programming language.