About Metrical Long Over Two Shorts
Metrical Long Over Two Shorts is the Unicode character ⏔ at codepoint U+23D4 in the Miscellaneous Technical block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
Technical Reference
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How to Use Metrical Long Over Two Shorts
To use the Metrical Long Over Two Shorts symbol (⏔) in HTML, insert the
entity ⏔ directly into your markup. The decimal entity ⏔ works in any HTML-serialised document.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\23D4';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u23D4' evaluates to ⏔. In Python source, write '\u23D4'.
The character encodes to E2 8F 94 as UTF-8 bytes and 23D4 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9172.
This is a text-based Unicode character. It will render in the current font on most platforms. If a font lacks this glyph, the browser may show a placeholder or fall back to a system font.