Centre Line Symbol ℄
Symbol Meaning
The capital Latin letters “C” and “L” are used to indicate the centerline, which demonstrates the object axis or a rotation body on a drawing. It is represented by a dotted line consisting of alternating short and long dashes.
Unicode has a special symbol for indicating this line, called “Centerline Symbol”. It consists of two intermingled letters, with “C” slightly above “L”. This symbol is one of the Letterlike Symbols2100–214F and it's suitable for various documents and blueprints. Besides, you can use it in typography to indicate the position of the centerline of a letter, such as the horizontal bar in the capital letter “H”.
The symbol “Centre Line Symbol” is included in the “Letterlike symbols” subblock of the “Letterlike Symbols” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
Synonyms
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| Unicode Name | Centre Line Symbol |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Letterlike Symbols |
| Unicode Subblock | Letterlike symbols |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 2104 |
| Simple case change | 2104 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 84 84 | 226 132 132 | 14845060 | 11100010 10000100 10000100 |
| UTF-16BE | 21 04 | 33 4 | 8452 | 00100001 00000100 |
| UTF-16LE | 04 21 | 4 33 | 1057 | 00000100 00100001 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 21 04 | 0 0 33 4 | 8452 | 00000000 00000000 00100001 00000100 |
| UTF-32LE | 04 21 00 00 | 4 33 0 0 | 69271552 | 00000100 00100001 00000000 00000000 |