U+2318 Place of Interest Sign
U+2318 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Miscellaneous Technical in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as command key (1.0) and operating system key (ISO 9995-7).
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+2318 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The looped square (⌘), also known as Saint John's Arms, Saint Hannes cross (related to Swedish sankthanskors, Danish johanneskors, and Finnish hannunvaakuna), and as the command-key symbol due to its use on the command key on Apple computer keyboards, is a symbol consisting of a square with outward pointing loops at its corners. It is referred to as a looped square, for example, in works regarding the Mississippian culture (approximately 800 CE to 1600 CE). It is also known as the place of interest sign when used on information signs, a practice which started in Finland in the 1950s, spreading to the other Nordic countries in the 1960s.
It is an ancient symbol used by several cultures, and remains in common use today. It belongs to a class of symbols which are called valknute in Norway.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 8984 |
| UTF-8 | E2 8C 98 |
| UTF-16 | 23 18 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 23 18 |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%8C%98 |
| HTML hex reference | ⌘ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ⌘ |
| alias | command key (1.0) |
| alias | operating system key (ISO 9995-7) |
| Adobe Glyph List | propellor |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| PLACE OF INTEREST SIGN | |
| COMMAND KEY | |
| Miscellaneous Technical | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Place of Interest Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| Place of Interest Sign | |
| Place of Interest Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| Place of Interest Sign | |
| Place of Interest Sign | |
| Place of Interest Sign | |
| Place of Interest Sign | |
| Place of Interest Sign | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Place of Interest Sign | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Place of Interest Sign | |
| Yes | |
| Place of Interest Sign | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Place of Interest Sign | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Place of Interest Sign | |
| U |