About Print Screen Symbol
Print Screen Symbol is the Unicode character ⎙ at codepoint U+2399 in the Miscellaneous Technical block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
Developer Notes
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How to Use Print Screen Symbol
To use the Print Screen Symbol 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: '\2399';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u2399' evaluates to ⎙. In Python source, write '\u2399'.
The character encodes to E2 8E 99 as UTF-8 bytes and 2399 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9113.
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.