Composition Symbol

Part of Technical and Miscellaneous Symbols

Composition Symbol has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.

Alt code
None
HTML entity
⎄
Unicode
U+2384

About this symbol

⎄ is the symbol for the Compose key, from the international standard for keyboard symbols, ISO 9995-7. On keyboards that had one, such as those of Sun and DEC workstations, Compose followed by e and an apostrophe typed é, a way to reach accented letters without codes.

Unicode facts

Official name
COMPOSITION SYMBOL
Type
Symbol
Unicode block
Miscellaneous Technical
Unicode group
Keyboard symbols from ISO 9995-7
Added in
Unicode 3.0 (1999)

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