Miscellaneous Technical
| Miscellaneous Technical | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+2300..U+23FF (256 code points) |
| Plane | BMP |
| Scripts | Common |
| Symbol sets | Technical APL symbols Dentistry notation |
| Assigned | 256 code points |
| Unused | 0 reserved code points 2 deprecated |
| Source standards | ISO 2047, ISO 9995-7 |
| Unicode version history | |
| 1.0.0 (1991) | 45 (+45) |
| 1.0.1 (1992) | 43 (−2) |
| 1.1 (1993) | 122 (+79) |
| 3.0 (1999) | 154 (+32) |
| 3.2 (2002) | 207 (+53) |
| 4.0 (2003) | 209 (+2) |
| 4.1 (2005) | 220 (+11) |
| 5.0 (2006) | 232 (+12) |
| 5.2 (2009) | 233 (+1) |
| 6.0 (2010) | 244 (+11) |
| 7.0 (2014) | 251 (+7) |
| 9.0 (2016) | 255 (+4) |
| 10.0 (2017) | 256 (+1) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| Note: Two characters were removed from the Miscellaneous Technical block in version 1.0.1 during the process of unifying with ISO 10646. | |
Miscellaneous Technical is a Unicode block ranging from U+2300 to U+23FF. It contains various common symbols which are related to and used in the various technical, programming language, and academic professions. For example:
- Symbol ⌂ (HTML hexadecimal code is ⌂) represents a house or a home.
- Symbol ⌘ (⌘) is a "place of interest" sign. It may be used to represent the Command key on a Mac keyboard.
- Symbol ⌚ (⌚) is a watch (or clock).
- Symbol ⏏ (⏏) is the "Eject" button symbol found on electronic equipment.
- Symbol ⏚ (⏚) is the "Earth Ground" symbol found on electrical or electronic manual, tag and equipment.
It also includes most of the uncommon symbols used by the APL programming language.