U+269F Three Lines Converging Left
U+269F was added in Unicode version 5.2 in 2009. It belongs to the block Miscellaneous Symbols 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 background speaking.
The glyph is not a composition. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. If its East Asian Width is “narrow”, U+269F forms a word with similar characters, which prevents a line break inside it. Otherwise it allows line breaks around it, except in some numeric contexts.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Closed captioning (CC) and subtitling are both processes of displaying text on a television, video screen, or other visual display to provide additional or interpretive information. Both are typically used as a transcription of the audio portion of a program as it occurs (either verbatim or in edited form), sometimes including descriptions of non-speech elements. Other uses have included providing a textual alternative language translation of a presentation's primary audio language that is usually burned-in (or "open") to the video and unselectable.
HTML5 defines subtitles as a "transcription or translation of the dialogue when sound is available but not understood" by the viewer (for example, dialogue in a foreign language) and captions as a "transcription or translation of the dialogue, sound effects, relevant musical cues, and other relevant audio information when sound is unavailable or not clearly audible" (for example, when audio is muted or the viewer is deaf or hard of hearing).
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 9887 |
| UTF-8 | E2 9A 9F |
| UTF-16 | 26 9F |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 26 9F |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%9A%9F |
| HTML hex reference | ⚟ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ⚟ |
| alias | background speaking |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 37 B2 31 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 5.2 (2009) | |
| THREE LINES CONVERGING LEFT | |
| — | |
| Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Three Lines Converging Left | |
| ✘ | |
| Three Lines Converging Left | |
| Three Lines Converging Left | |
| ✘ | |
| Three Lines Converging Left | |
| Three Lines Converging Left | |
| Three Lines Converging Left | |
| Three Lines Converging Left | |
| Three Lines Converging Left | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| Three Lines Converging Left | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Three Lines Converging Left | |
| Yes | |
| Three Lines Converging Left | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
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| Other | |
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| Other | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Three Lines Converging Left | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ambiguous (Alphabetic or Ideographic) | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Three Lines Converging Left | |
| U |