I am looking for the Unicode character of a dashed line with an inverted arrow on top. The arrow is a triangle with a corner intersecting with the dashed line. This character is the keyboard symbol for the zero-width non-joiner character (U+200C). While zero-width non-joiner Unicode is easy to find, its corresponding keyboard symbol has been impossible to find.
Below is a screenshot of a Bengali keyboard on iOS, which displays the character in question in blue:
To be clear, I am not asking for the Unicode for the zero-width non-joiner character, which I know is U+200C. Instead I am asking for the Unicode for the keyboard symbol which represents the zero-width non-joiner. Does anyone know how I can find the Unicode for this character?
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I am pretty confident that there is no Unicode character or combination intended for this very purpose, but you can get something visually similar that is somewhat semantically fitting, by combining one of:
U+205E: vertical four dots: ⁞
This one is intended for word breaks (which is were I would usually expect a ZWNJ), albeit undesireable ones.U+2999: dotted fence: ⦙
and one of:
- U+030C: combining caron: ̌
- U+1AB3: combining downwards arrow: ᪳
The second character is combining, i.e., it ideally should display above the first one, but you cannot rely on this to work with every font, in particular since this is not an intended combination. Here is how the combinations render on your machine on this site:
⁞̌ ⦙̌̌ ⁞᪳ ⦙᪳
I have no idea how to find it on iOS, but on Mac you can get it from the 'Emoji & Symbols' character viewer.
My Mac [UK English, Mojave] can't display it, but I can still find it in the search, by the long-hand method of typing 'joiner' in the top, then clicking the 'blanks' one by one until the name is displayed on the right…
which shows it's Unicode U+200C UTF-8 E2 80 8C
You can insert on Mac by double-clicking it, so though I can't display it, I'll put one on the next line
to see if it displays for you. It may not if it's designed only to combine with another glyph. If you look to the right-hand column, you can see it in any font which has a corresponding glyph. Most of the fonts I have show it as only a vertical line, similar to a pipe | except for a few adobe fonts which show it as a tiny x above the character space
