Miscellaneous Technical is the name of 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.
- Symbol ? (HTML hexadecimal code is ⌂) represents a house or a home.
- Symbol ? (⌘) represents the Command key on 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.
It also includes most of the uncommon symbols used by the APL programming language.
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Miscellaneous Technical (2300-23FF) in Unicode
In Unicode, Miscellaneous Technical symbols placed in the hexadecimal range 0x2300-0x23FF, (decimal 8960-9215), as described below.
(2300-233F)
- 1.^ Unicode code points U+2329 & U+232A are deprecated.
(2340-237F)
(2380-23BF)
(23C0-23FF)
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Compact chart
Emoji
The Miscellaneous Technical block contains eighteen emoji: U+231A-U+231B, U+2328, U+23CF, U+23E9-U+23F3 and U+23F8-U+23FA.
The block has 30 standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the following fifteen base characters: U+231A-U+231B, U+2328, U+23CF, U+23E9-U+23EA, U+23ED-U+23EF, U+23F1-U+23F3 and U+23F8-U+23FA.
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Miscellaneous Technical block:
See also
- Unicode mathematical operators and symbols
- Unicode symbols
References
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