There is a great deal of variation in this character; fonts often make it distinctive as an identifying feature of the font. Common variants include ⟨🙵⟩ and ⟨🙰⟩.
Apart from the CJK variants, additional Unicode characters are intended for backward compatibility with Wingdings fonts.
Glyph origin
A stylized form of Latinet(“and”). Romans used such symbols (ligatures) from at least the first century C.E., but the character may not have acquired its present form until the advent of calligraphy in the Middle Ages. Compare ⁊ and +, of same meaning and similar derivation.