U+2388 Helm Symbol
U+2388 was added to Unicode in version 3.0 (1999). 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 control.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+2388 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
In computing, a Control key Ctrl is a modifier key which, when pressed in conjunction with another key, performs a special operation (for example, Ctrl+C); similar to the Shift key, the Control key rarely performs any function when pressed by itself. The Control key is located on or near the bottom left side of most keyboards (in accordance with the international standard ISO/IEC 9995-2), with many featuring an additional one at the bottom right.
On keyboards that use English abbreviations for key labeling, it is usually labeled Ctrl (rarely, Control or Ctl is seen). Abbreviations in the language of the keyboard layout also are in use, e.g., the German keyboard layout uses Strg as required by the German standard DIN 2137:2012-06. Also, there is a standardized keyboard symbol (to be used when Latin lettering is not preferred), given in ISO/IEC 9995-7 as symbol 26, and in ISO 7000 "Graphical symbols for use on equipment" as symbol ISO-7000-2028. This symbol is encoded in Unicode as U+2388 helm symbol (⎈).
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 9096 |
| UTF-8 | E2 8E 88 |
| UTF-16 | 23 88 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 23 88 |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%8E%88 |
| HTML hex reference | ⎈ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ⎈ |
| alias | control |
Related Characters
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
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| 3.0 (1999) | |
| HELM SYMBOL | |
| — | |
| Miscellaneous Technical | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| Helm Symbol | |
| ✘ | |
| Helm Symbol | |
| Helm Symbol | |
| ✘ | |
| Helm Symbol | |
| Helm Symbol | |
| Helm Symbol | |
| Helm Symbol | |
| Helm Symbol | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| Helm Symbol | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Helm Symbol | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
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| Other | |
| ✘ | |
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| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Helm Symbol | |
| None | |
| Neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Helm Symbol | |
| U |