U+2317 "⌗" Viewdata Square Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⌗
U+2317 "⌗" Viewdata Square is a graphical symbol originally used in the Viewdata and teletext systems of the 1970s and 1980s, where it served as a special control character for screen formatting, often representing a filled or active square within a mosaic character set. It is classified under the “Miscellaneous Technical” block and has no standard meaning in plain text, but it sometimes appears in modern contexts as a decorative glyph or in technical documentation related to legacy terminal systems. Its visual design typically shows a solid square with a small grid-like pattern or a prominent central dot, depending on the typeface.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2317 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Viewdata Square |
| Block | Miscellaneous Technical |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⌗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⌗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x8C 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2317 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002317 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2317 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |