About Metrical Short Over Long
Metrical Short Over Long is the Unicode character ⏓ at codepoint U+23D3 in the Miscellaneous Technical block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
Developer Notes
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How to Use Metrical Short Over Long
To use the Metrical Short Over Long 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: '\23D3';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u23D3' evaluates to ⏓. In Python source, write '\u23D3'.
The character encodes to E2 8F 93 as UTF-8 bytes and 23D3 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9171.
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.