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U+26A8 Vertical Male with Stroke Sign

U+26A8 was added in Unicode version 4.1 in 2005. It belongs to the block U+2600 to U+26FF Miscellaneous Symbols in the U+0000 to U+FFFF 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 alchemical symbol for iron.

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+26A8 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

⚨ may refer to:

Gender symbol for androgyny

Alchemical symbol for iron(II) sulfate

Representations

System	Representation (click value to copy)
Nº	9896
UTF-8	E2 9A A8
UTF-16	26 A8
UTF-32	00 00 26 A8
URL-Quoted	%E2%9A%A8
HTML hex reference	⚨
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	âš¨
alias	alchemical symbol for iron
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes)	81 37 B3 30
RFC 5137	\u'26A8'
Bash and Zsh inside `echo -e`	\u26A8
C and C++	\u26A8
C#	\u26A8
CSS	\0026A8
Excel	=UNICHAR(9896)
Go	\u26A8
JavaScript	\u26A8
Modern JavaScript since ES6	\u{26a8}
JSON	\u26A8
Java	\u26A8
Lua	\u{26A8}
Matlab	char(9896)
Perl	"\x{26A8}"
PHP	\u{26a8}
PostgreSQL	U&'\26A8'
PowerShell	`u{26A8}
Python	\u26A8
Ruby	\u{26a8}
Rust	\u{26a8}
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Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age (age)	4.1 (2005)
Unicode Name (na)	VERTICAL MALE WITH STROKE SIGN
Unicode 1 Name (na1)	—
Block (blk)	Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
General Category (gc)	Other Symbol
Script (sc)	Common
Bidirectional Category (bc)	Other Neutral
Combining Class (ccc)	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt)	none
Decomposition Mapping (dm)	Vertical Male with Stroke Sign
Lowercase (Lower)	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc)	Vertical Male with Stroke Sign
Lowercase Mapping (lc)	Vertical Male with Stroke Sign
Uppercase (Upper)	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc)	Vertical Male with Stroke Sign
Uppercase Mapping (uc)	Vertical Male with Stroke Sign
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc)	Vertical Male with Stroke Sign
Titlecase Mapping (tc)	Vertical Male with Stroke Sign
Case Folding (cf)	Vertical Male with Stroke Sign
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)	✘
Alphabetic (Alpha)	✘
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)	✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)	✘
Composition Exclusion (CE)	✘
Case Ignorable (CI)	✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)	✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)	✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)	✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)	✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)	✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)	✘
Cased (Cased)	✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)	✘
Dash (Dash)	✘
Deprecated (Dep)	✘
Diacritic (Dia)	✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)	✘
Emoji Component (EComp)	✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod)	✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres)	✘
Emoji (Emoji)	✘
Extender (Ext)	✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)	✔
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC)	Vertical Male with Stroke Sign
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB)	Any
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)	✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)	✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)	✘
Hex Digit (Hex)	✘
Hyphen (Hyphen)	✘
ID Continue (IDC)	✘
ID Start (IDS)	✘
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)	✘
IDSU (IDSU)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start)	0
Ideographic (Ideo)	✘
InCB (InCB)	None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)	—
Indic Positional Category (InPC)	NA
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC)	Other
Jamo Short Name (JSN)	—
Join Control (Join_C)	✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE)	✘
Modifier Combining Mark (MCM)	✘
Math (Math)	✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)	✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC)	Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC)	Yes
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF)	Vertical Male with Stroke Sign
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC)	Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF)	Vertical Male with Stroke Sign
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC)	Yes
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)	✘
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)	✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)	✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC)	✘
Other ID Start (OIDS)	✘
Other Lowercase (OLower)	✘
Other Math (OMath)	✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper)	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)	✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)	✔
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)	✘
Quotation Mark (QMark)	✘
Regional Indicator (RI)	✘
Radical (Radical)	✘
Sentence Break (SB)	Other
Soft Dotted (SD)	✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm)	✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term)	✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)	✘
Variation Selector (VS)	✘
Word Break (WB)	Other
White Space (WSpace)	✘
XID Continue (XIDC)	✘
XID Start (XIDS)	✘
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)	✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)	✘
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)	✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)	✘
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb)	Vertical Male with Stroke Sign
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt)	None
East Asian Width (ea)	neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst)	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)	—
Joining Group (jg)	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt)	Non Joining
Line Break (lb)	Alphabetic
Numeric Type (nt)	none
Numeric Value (nv)	not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf)	Vertical Male with Stroke Sign
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo)	U