Its the symbol for electrical load on a circuit. I haven’t seen it in like 30 years, but there you go. I wasn’t aware it was a proprietary thing, but it may be a Swiss/German standard not used elsewhere.

Hunter Vapes

@Jeremy Streich You literally just said SEMANTICALLY what I said, with Programmer lingo instead of standardized Engineering terms used throughout mechanisms AND programs.... Major.Minor.Patch= Series.Version.Rev. and the same goes for parts, like for Automobiles, Firearms, and everything else. I should know... I worked for cyber-security, government, and armed forces contracts in various fields. It's Always The Same. For A Reason. Period.

Jeremy Streich

@Hunter Vapes Your information about software versioning is incorrect. "Every engineer uses the same numbering scheme, because it just makes sense. Series . Version . Revision" is simply not true. Many programmers use Semantic Versioning, but certainly not all, and Semantic Versioning is Major.Minor.Patch, one Series.Version.Revision. Many pieces of software have other internal conversions, like in the Linux Kernel, the even Minor numbers are stable, and odd Minor numbers are not guaranteed to be stable versions (think beta releases). Meanwhile, programmers typically count from zero. Pre-1.0 releases are very common, with 0.8 or 0.9 being common versions for public launches. 1.0 is also often the public launch. Your willingness to talk with authority on SemVers when spouting nonsense draws doubt on your other claims. Also, Unicode launched in 1991 with 1.0 - which was the cough "OG" cough not 1.1 which didn't launch until three years later. Stop blowing smoke.

Samuel Sabin

@Hunter Vapes Could you tell us where the source for this is so we can look it up?

Jacob Huggins

haha that’s what I thought when I saw it, something to do wit grounding. It literally looks like a wire wrapped around a grounding spike.

Ged Miller

@Ali Gator basically looks like a potentiometer symbol

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LampBoy

2y↑219

Similarly, there is "彁"
This is a Japanese Kanji (Aka. Chinese character) but contains absolutly no meaning known. This is called "Yūrē Moji" or "Ghost Character" in Japan, which was quite more, but most of their origins were found eventually. In the end only this one letter "彁" left as mistery.

InfoProd

looks like two chinese characters mashed up, I recognize the shapes

9o2

Everyone knows there's no such thing as

Ghost Samaritan

Alright guys, it mea

DialecticRed

@capbarker yeah if you died why would the comment be unfi

vampclawz sys

1y↑3

@capbarker yea because you c

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HenryBloggit

2y↑678

Half as Interesting single-handedly keeping the stock footage industry alive.

Graxum

2y↑2

@FnD Ch an igblon viewer on a half as interesting video? weird coincidence

FnD Ch

2y↑3

Also one youtuber called IGoByLotsOfNames

RJTimmerman

2y↑4

Together with Thoughty2

Un canal aleatorio

2y↑72

If you keep the good work, I think your channel is gonna ⍼!

potato

NOOOOOOOOOOOO

mrlegodude96alt2

2y↑9.8K

I like to imagine it was a scribble in a margin of some obscure math proof that people were too afraid to question and it just kept getting passed around

SGT_Weber

@Soumitra Kandpal the symbol for Micro(µ)looks nowhere close to how most people write the number 4 like.

Dustin Edwards

@Soumitra Kandpal As a former engineering course grader… We know… And it physically pains us to mark down the good students that did their own homework for their mistakes, while those copying from solution manuals get great scores… But it both delights and dismays me when multiple students misread the poor writing of the solution and make a completely nonsensical proof that states 9<5… it’s disappointing how many students are completely clueless about the course material and don’t bother to try to understand at least part of it…

Aleksandar Bosakov

@RickyRister It's 7 orders of magnitude of, not 6.

Foxxey

@Nalin Goel literally my thoughts

AntiPseudo

2y↑1

So... the official meaning is "Why doesn't this pen work? Oh wait there it goes"

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X Baron

2y↑140

The beginnings of Unicode were apparently somewhat chaotic. The math symbols in particular contain a lot of ideas that some working group members had collected from unknown sources and just threw in. There was seemingly endless space so probably the thinking was "why not add anything that might be useful". This was, of course, foolish in hind sight.

X Baron

2y↑3

@Eduardo [Larry] Marín Silva The person who knows most about this is probably Barbara Beeton of the STIX project of the American Mathematical Society. I've seen her answers about ⍼ (U+237C) and "go markers" (U+2686 to U+2689) online.

Eduardo [Larry] Marín Silva

Can I have a source for this claim please? 🥺

CreativeName 487

2y↑2

Why is it foolish in hindsight?

Creepyboom The Gamer

2y↑5

Emoji was already invented, just not added to the Unicode standard.

Ali Gator

2y↑1

I mean up until the 40s/50s every university/study group ect. had their own symbols and made them up along the way with their ideas (at least in maths, physics, etc.). Many of the original scripts of people like Pauli or Gödel are probably illegible in modern times. ⍼ is probably one of this old symbols.

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basilwhite

2y↑36

Back in the 80's SPSS used this symbol to mean "unplottable negative value", like, for a scatterplot to see the correlation between time to complete the survey and number of correct answers, it's okay if the scatterplot shows a negative correlation of data points from the upper left to the lower right inside the plot, but this data representation assumes 1) no one reversed time and completed their survey in -2 minutes, or 2) got 14 questions wrong on a 10-question form. So this was (and may still be) statistical shorthand for "data points appearing in supposedly impossible negative territory."

Ghost Samaritan

What did they change the symbol to?

Benjamin Lindhorst

This one makes sense the most for me.
Either that or is a "magic" symbol as another dude pointed out. Probably you answer is better, since it's based on real life

Merlin Jürgens

2y↑2

There we have the answer!

Slimelia

2y↑46

Barbara Beeton responded to this video herself: "The information in the video is inaccurate. It fails to recognize that the inclusion of the character in the STIX collection was based on its presence in a version of ISO 9573-13 earlier than the 1991 version cited, a version which existed long before AFII was formed."

Louis Reinitz

2y↑6

He mentions that he didn't want to pay 198 euros for the pdf of ISO 9573-13.

Ali Gator

2y↑7

Where did she says that?

Sprzedam Opla

2y↑5

As the code for ⍼ is 273C, it makes sense that it means -273°C which is the absolute zero. Also: ⍼, Sam

Reg Gen

2y↑10

The Angzar is truly one of the Unicode characters of all time!

ChemicalVapors

2y↑3

ISO actually stands for International Organization for Standardization. ISO was chosen for the abbreviation because of its meaning and to be the same in every language, regardless of how it was translated in that language.

Alan Campbell

2y↑2

I am reminded of the stories about Van Halen's contract, which specifies no browm M&Ms. A quick look lets them determine if all fine print of the contract has been read.
This could be a Unicode version of that check.

Vili Perse

2y↑6

Haven't watched the video yet but this character can only represent one thing: The Knight's Move!

Данил Карташов

r/anarchychess user there

Jack Salzman

2y↑6.5K

I always thought it was a testing character, used to determine if the computer ran Unicode, because it was impossible to confuse it with any other known character at the time

Richard Classey

1y↑1

@P. Wingert Prisoner of Angzarr-Ban?

Richard Classey

1y↑1

@P. Wingert Doubt it.
He is way too busy laying down the Angzarr over at Twitter right now.

P. Wingert

@Richard Classey This thread has been moderated by Elon Musk Personally?

P. Wingert

Actually, it indicates that you may be transported to a perpendicular alternate reality under specific conditions while casting a spell!

Ok Ok

@Richard Classey clearly the angzzar means finally its here

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towo

2y↑3

I still retain that it's a screwed up case of two mathematical symbols getting combined: the right angle (∟) and the contradiction (↯) used in some proof where something not being at right angles was just the thing they wanted to show. And, as usual, someone was just baffled by the whole thing and fore some inane reason this carried over to being a 'symbol' because noone along the way understood enough of maths to recognize someone did an oopsie.

Joshua Collins

2y↑2

"Ancient Chaos Magic" is a meaningless phrase. Chaos Magic was invented pretty recently and is intended as a 'platform agnostic' way of doing 'magic' based on similarities between different shamanic practices and traditions.

It's pretty interesting because it's a magic system that often explicitly includes non magical explanations, e.g. that you're not communicating your goals to spirits, you're trying to cement them in your own mind and prime yourself to take action that furthers those goals.

Definitely worth looking into at least a little

Vyl Bird

It's mocking the tendency of some people to attribute 'ancient wisdom' to modern practices. Magic, crackpot medicine, pretty much anything said by the Freemasons. Because 'we have uncovered long-lost knowledge from the ancient times when magic was known' is much more impressive than 'some guy made it up in the seventies.'

Kaleb Productions

2y↑1

This is the link sigil, a sigil used when you have no other link element in a working in chaos magic. Better than nothing. Some people swear by it.

TheAnon03

2y↑2

An Intellectual Property identifier. If a machine displays ⍼ when it "doesn't" use unicode then whoever created unicode knows that their code was just ripped off.

anzasquiddles

2y↑3K

according to XKCD #2606, the character is a symbol for Larry Potter, so that's what i'm going with. the same comic also helpfully pointed out that ⩼ means "confused alligator", ⭈ means "snakes over there", and ⨓ means "integral that avoids a bee on the whiteboard"

Sam Kadel

@alysdexia dude I'm a diabetic. A cure has been "on its way" for 30 years, and disability isn't fucking disappearing just because of stem cells. If you knew anything about them you'd know that.

alysdexia

@Sam Kadel one talks, not speaks, on a keyboard. You never heard of pluripotent stem cells and gene therapy.

Sam Kadel

@alysdexia most disabilities do stay forever..... Speaking as someone with several disabilities whose treatments are just "die or constantly monitor your every move" and "use meds that mitigate symptoms forever"

alysdexia

@Sam Kadel if the defect is their fault and they don’t want to be healed they’ll be treated differently than the faults of the parents. It seems like you think disabilities stay forever.

alysdexia

@Sam Kadel those in power misuse words. You sound more and more like a chatbot.

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Tommy Ohlrich

2y↑5

Because there’s a very important design principle: “you CANT destroy something until you can explain its purpose”

Googie Gress

2y↑1

Maintaining a low bar for destroying dat poosi, baby

Ayush Sharma

2y↑21

My favourite part of the video was when HAI said "its ⍼ time" and ⍼ everyone.

Truly one of the videos on YouTube

LucioGhosty

2y↑40

Are we just gonna let him get away with pronouncing sigil as “si-gull” instead of “sid-jul”?

Nahvec

2y↑1

@CuteCharmExlpoit don't worry, it's okay to be wrong

never heard that pronunciation, ever

CreativeName 487

2y↑1

@CuteCharmExlpoit Um… both pronunciations aren’t accepted

Googie Gress

Easy peasy, "sidjul" means "written symbol or glyph" while "sigull" is how you pronounce the name of the City of Doors in Planescape.

Harvested Voltage

2y↑2

@CuteCharmExlpoit try again

White Hawk

2y↑9

Especially when on that Wikipedia page it shows the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) form for how to pronounce ‘sigil’ properly. /ˈsɪdʒɪl/

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Sukkulents

2y↑1

this video was:
•entertaining
•informative
•life changing
•⍼

Warren Porter

2y↑4.1K

In meteorology, we have symbols for denoting surface weather observations. ☇ means lightning and ☈ means thunderstorm. Maybe ⍼ was a corruption of one the thunderstorm one?

Nicholas Andre

Maybe it’s explosive diarrhea?

DeMox

u+200b

CaralhoGuy

@beyond your imagination stf trash video disliked 👎

Ian Yeager

2y↑1

@Harrie Hausenman i thought that was called an "electric eel"?

Ian Yeager

2y↑1

superb idea!
it means "LIGHTNING ROD"
"(& connotatively "ANVIL", to those jerky-enough to worship THOR!"
--arturius)

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BluesAndNoise

2y↑1

I like to think it means something innocuous like “move tab stop to next line”. Word processors are pretty universal in using the right angle for tab stops.

Cedric Lee

2y↑2

the true meaning of ⍼ is the friends we made along the way

Bullitt Gaming

2y↑1

The segues content creators come up with to integrate their video sponsor to the content of their videos - seamlessly/successfully - is a skill unto itself. Good job 👍🏼

Kyyyyyle25

2y↑2

Just noticed that some modern routers use the downward arrow symbol for download speed indication. So maybe this symbol is supposed to be used to represent abnormal variation in download speeds

WombatGirl

2y↑3.7K

My best guess (and to be fair it isn't particularly interesting compared to a lot of these theories): somewhere out there in the world there are a very small group of engineers who are about 50-60 years old that would see this symbol and immediately think "oh, I used to work for a company that used that as a proprietary mark on their circuit diagrams to represent (something). I had no idea it was still around."

usp211816

the second i saw the video my brain immediately went to did you ask an electrical engineer?

Chris Baten

2y↑2

@KitchenTroll Ha, ha, those were the days of computing smokey goodness.... Like a PDP-11 with memory banks for image processing crashing within half an hour, when somebody forgot the open the windows for extra cooling. Or when a Fortran typo of adding a space between the word delete and the file to be deleted to cause a complete (Flopoy-)disk with patient data to be wiped, or newly developed AD cards to explode (with flame and smoke) by another one character typo (all 80s).

るーちゃん

Someone else on the video commented exactly this! Apparently it was a symbol used a long time ago meaning high electrical load used in Switzerland and Germany.

Steve Cheney

I'm wondering if it's a logo for a company that thought it was going to be huge at some point. If it only cost £5 to register the symbol back then, why wouldn't you do it?

Steve Dixon

Nice.
I like the doodle theory myself. Someone started to draw a right angle graph, then scribbled it out (author would be left handed t leave the trailing 'check/arrow' mark at the end). Would have been when they were drafting the unicode characters for submission and just 'forgotten about' and no one confirmed its purpose. So, a typo.

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Pierre C.

2y↑3

As it turns out, 1 ANGZAR is the value of one ANG (Netherlands Antillean Guilder) in South African Rand (ZAR).
At today's rate, it's about 8.96.

Googie Gress

2y↑1

You have no idea how weirdly comforting that is!

wardrich

2:45 I'm sure some subsect of the text-art scene appreciates this inclusion, though I'm not sure how many people use it. ANSI art, on the other hand is still very much alive

Ian Zainea

2y↑3

1:50 good timing with the stock clip, that final reaction look from her is perfect

Carl Gomberg

2y↑1

At 0:40 there's a version with a rounded "lightning bolt" that looks like a sine wave going up the y-axis. Taken that way, this symbol could represent a rotated "right hand rule" showing the moving charge (sine/triangle AC waveform on y-axis), the magnetic field line (straight x-axis), and the magnetic force (vector/arrow on z-axis).

em

2y↑1

The funny thing is that since this video came out, ⍼ now has a meaning: its meaning is a reference to the meme about how it has no meaning.

Jens Schröder

2y↑1

- The mechanical tape used a 5-bit code with two character sets to represent control characters, numbers and letters. But switching between two character sets was cumbersome.
- Then an ASCII code with 7 bits came onto the computer market. This worked well with English characters but lacked additional characters for other languages.
- Then various 8-bit character sets were developed that were at least compatible with ASCII but contained the special characters.
- Then there is UNI Code 8 bit which is structured in a similar way. This time the special characters have been replaced by multiple characters.
- And then Uni Code 16 bit was invented where probably all characters are available.

Christopher Gibbons

2y↑2

That is a terminal graphic control code. In general they are used for creating diagrams entirely from characters. It was written into older versions of spice simulations. It was an unused component that had an opcode and a symbol but couldn't be used. I don't know if that is what the symbol was created for, but that is where it ended up.

MrComfyFrog.

2y↑1

It might be one of those things added to prevent theft. A unique, meaningless symbol that could be easily distinguished. Map makers used to do that.

Andi Mcc

2y↑1.1K

Decent video, there's one thing about Unicode I think is important to understand to understand why this wasn't just allowed to happen, but had to happen. The goal of Unicode was to replace every previously existing character encoding standard. That means a core rule of Unicode is that it must support "round-trip conversion" with every older standard. You must be able to convert a document in a previous standard into unicode, and then back again to the previous standard, and the final document must be unchanged. So for example "one dot leader" (․) might be in practice exactly the same as a period (.), but Unicode has to give them separate characters, because in XCCS (the Xerox Character Code Standard from 1980) they were separate characters, so if Unicode collapsed them both into period then converting an XCCS document containing one dot leaders to unicode and back would result in the one dot leaders being changed to periods. And if there was a risk that converting an XCCS document to Unicode might damage (alter) the document, then that might give people an incentive to keep around documents in XCCS, thus defeating the goal of Unicode to be the one and only world standard. This roundtrip rule is why, if an ISO standard ever contained a character simply by accident (like ⍼), Unicode is not allowed to correct that accident.

The roundtrip conversion requirement is also part of why Unicode contains about twenty different characters for a space (at least one of which is completely redundant with another space character) and, in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, a prayer ("﷽" -- that is one character right there, codepoint 65021, it's called the Basmala and it's a blessing common in the Muslim world to open prayers or in some places legal documents).

A W-H

@Shayan No! I will not let him go. Let him go...

JG Peres

oh wow thats amazing

Conrad Roberts

Thank you for this! You perfectly explained something I've always wondered about but never thought to ask.

Real Talk

2y↑1

BTW it's Bismilla not Basmala. The -illa is in reference to Allah, so Bismillah means "In the name of Allah" with the rest of that text reading Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem meaning "The Gracious and The Merciful."

Logan H

2y↑5

@Stevie J Anyone can write that. Only someone in-the-know can describe the history of the "one dot leader" in Xerox Character Code Standard documents.

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Tinfox2

2y↑1

I think one possible use for ⍼ is the fact that nobody knows what it means. So, it could be used to denote something extremely confusing, like why ⍼ exists. In short, what I'm trying to say is that ⍼ is why ⍼ exists.

Ggdivhjkjl

I found a character missing from Unicode. How do I have it added please?

David Lyle

The theory that I understood was that early equipment needed a special shut down routine. At the time it was assumed that every computer would have similar needs. While this was certainly the case for relay or vacuum tube components solid state didn’t really have such demand and as functions moved more and more to IC elaborate shut down became effectively impossible ( without induction or capacitance elements in the circuits there typically WASN’T stored energy to actually execute them anyway.)

First Name Last Name

I read it as "Disfunction". Most functions have a progression of increasing x values so the arrow being at a negative x value alongside the multiple y outputs, expresses to me something is not functional.

Mark Hancock

2y↑1.6K

I love Jonathan's final comment in his report "If she was unable to find a source while actively working with AFII and STIX back in the 90s, I doubt I would be able to uncover anything new now, three decades later. Here, then, I close the book on my investigation. The meaning of ⍼ will be whatever meaning is assigned by whoever uses it next… if anyone uses it at all."

Chas Laspata

@drew lovely lol yeah that one!!!

besticud cumupwith

@Vigilant Cosmic Penguin...you'll see a lot of profile pics getting changed soon.

Vigilant Cosmic Penguin

2y↑1

The fun thing is, it was kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy - people are starting to use the symbol now that Jonathan pointed out that nobody uses the symbol.

drew lovely

2y↑3

@Chas Laspata oh you mean this symbol? ⍼

Rena Kunisaki

2y↑1

I say it means "Renamon is pretty great".

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EpicVodka

2y↑1

This has got to be one of those wild programming things, like if the game doesn't have an apple floating in the void the whole thing dosen't work at all.

Cup

2y↑1

i will say it looks really similar to the symbol for a thunderstorm in meteorology, ☈. Interestingly there is another symbol we use for "heavy thunder storm" which contains another 'zag' making it look more similar to the angzarr, but I can't find that character in unicode. Coincidence?

Theophilus Thistler

I've personally kind of used it to denote a short circuit when hand drawing a circuit diagram.

Though I use one colour to denote the circuit path and another over the the top to denote the short circuit.

FruityGumDrops

It's obviously there to represent the movement pattern of someone playing a stealth game that has 'crash through window' mechanics

QuotePilgrim

To be fair, Unicode has loads of symbols no one knows the meaning of, since it encodes characters from several undeciphered scripts.

Kousuke Masuhara

My first thought of the character was that it looked like going back a page, with the right angle being the corner of the page, and the arrow indicating to turn back.

C S ~ [Duke of Ramble]

2y↑2

Coincidentally, when I queued this video, I said to myself "Low Voltage" (as in, not a high voltage system). So I took that as a small win when there was already a similar symbol used in the electrical field.
[Having just looked at the "low voltage" wiki page, holy hell does that have a broad definition, and also depends on location. US is more sane on the definition of < 100V AC/49V DC, elsewhere though its a 'shocking' def of < 1000V AC/1500V DC! 😲😂 Yes, and I'm short at only 6ft tall....... lol]

Also, I liked how he pronounced Sigil as "Sig'ihl", and then showed the Wiki page... which showed the pronunciation breakdown.... indicating its pronounced "Sid'jill" (the "g" being like the "dg" in "edge") 😊😂

Pyglik

2y↑2

The thing about The Unicode Consortium is that they do not care what do the symbols mean. That's why they name characters like Upper Right Block Diagonal Lower Middle To Lower Right and not simply Lower Left Part Of A Larger Shape. They describe the look of a character and not its use. And if symbol exists and someone had used it, they add it in.

Super Smash Dolls

2y↑305

Fun fact: this isn't even the only meaningless character in Unicode. Japanese has infamous "ghost characters" (幽霊文字 yuurei moji) that exist purely because Japan's standards bodies made a bunch of typos when standardizing Shift-JIS. That got wrapped up into Unicode because Unicode has a standing policy of accepting pretty much anything that existed in an already standardized character set (which is also part of the reason why we have emoji).

LampBoy

2y↑3

👻 彁!

Allan Gibson

2y↑3

@Micah Meneyerji The different width spaces are critical for typesetting - that’s what lets you align left and right margins in text blocks. They have existed since Gutenberg…

Maldito

2y↑1

@محمد جعفر /Jafar Youtube filters some of it

Harry Bowman

2y↑1

Maybe it's presence and absence of a zero width space?

Donald Frank Cheadle Jr.

2y↑14

@محمد جعفر /Jafar some of them are just literally the same

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worship worm king

it's always fun when you happen to know the unicode code bit for a character someone needs (—is u+2014) and people look at you like you know the secrets of the universe

Barbara Kiewe

2y↑1

I think this symbol signifies a vector projecting out of the XY plane. To me, using a zigzag rather than just a simple line enhances the 3D effect, making the line more apparently "out of plane".

P. Wingert

extra dimensional transformation by transaxial rotation in current dimensional universe spin across the mu plane of existence?

Nick Scurvy

Given that linear A is in Unicode, there's technically an entire writing system of symbols that no one knows what they mean.

Sebastian Weinberg

2y↑1

Excellent work! This video was only half as ⍼ as the next most ⍼ one. I give it an ⍼/10. Would ⍼ again.

Max Weaver

2y↑303

"listen kid, I don't have much time, the secret for immortality is ⍼"
melts

Wild Blunt Hickok

The secret of immortality is: don't die

333o

2y↑2

The secret of immortality is ☥

Edward Smith

2y↑4

The secret of immortality is
∞

TheKitMurkit

2y↑5

The secret of immortality is ꑭ

The Prince of Inadequate Lighting

2y↑20

Well it obviously didn't help with the whole immortality thing if they ended up melting, now did it?

9o2

1y↑2

I AM THE WITCH KING OF ANGZARR! helmet crumples in on itself

tsbrownie

It looks like a carriage return / line feed. Those are separate things in ASCII (CR 015 Dec, LF 012 Dec) and as often as they are used together (in old teletypes, typewriters, terminals, etc.) combining them into one symbol / code makes sense.

Randyl Plampin

In Unicode 3 the space was filled with diagonal lines and the description just said "reserved." And another thing, the character is the second in a group of five entitled "Graphics for control codes" if that sheds any light.

PelenTan

Honestly, if you separate off the top angle, you have a symbol for "vector". The "L" gives the x/y coordinate of origin and the arrow is the direction. Though I'm not sure what the angle would then represent.

madobuns

2y↑831

I would guess that ⍼ represents "exiting or breaking a known system" - something used to describe that an element cannot be used or transcends the understanding of a system that it's attempting to operate in. It could be in maths, physics, programming, philosophy, etc.

P. Wingert

Summon from another reality I think would be a more correct interpretation!

Timelyseeker

@David Guild sad :(

Timelyseeker

Best awnser here

Vigilant Cosmic Penguin

Unicode is a known system... Angzarr exits or breaks it. So meta.

David Guild

2y↑1

Sadly the answer appears to be much less exciting. According to an old guy in another thread, it just means the electric load in a circuit.

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Roger Sledz

Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!

dragmire3D

For some reason, my instinctual thought was that ⍼ was a downed power line with electricity coming down a pole with a reference to ground.

stranth

It could have been a planned symbol to be used when representing the ANGle in the Z direction of an ARRay. The rotation angle of a spacecraft body is commonly graphed over time, hence the graph in the symbol, the zigzag arrow representing rotation in the Z axis.

Sanh Deda

Unicode is pretty crazy at times. In 2011, they encoded three glyphs – ꞟ, ꞛ, ꞝ (and their capital versions) that were used for a few years in the 19th century by the speakers of the constructed language Volapük but were replaced with existing ä, ö, and ü since. They are rather useless and Volapük had 20 known speakers by 2000..... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%9E%9E

sundhaug92

2y↑598

This is actually not the only character in Unicode with no known meaning. Because Unicode intends to have an encoding for any script ever used, it also includes stuff like the Linear A script used by the Minoans 1900 BC. Linear A has yet to be translated.

Gregory Morse

2y↑1

a script has an understood meaning. even if the pronunciations lost, and meaning of words built from the symbols lost, it has nothing to do with having a meaning. the meaning is wholly the concept and reasoning behind introduction into the standard.

NetRolller3D

2y↑1

Is there a Unicode block for Voynich characters?

Orion Hunter

@Advisor Golden Axolotl I'm pretty sure that's just something that used it
And, J?

Advisor Golden Axolotl

@Orion Hunter That’s used to indicate exponents if i remember correctly.

Neo Qwerty 『Venom Strike』

@Jared Maddox I'm now going to do an injoke and name my fire+shock spell Angzarr's Threshold.

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advait nagar

2y↑1

Your videos are very informative and your sense of humour is insane....I almost died of laughing 🤣

Wolfgang Reichl

2y↑1

While J. De la Poer's explanation sounds solid, I'll still go with the first proposition: a bear market.

Lőrinc Del Motte

Unicode had it's origins with Plan 9, an OS that was conceived as a successor to Unix by taking it's principles and updating them to then-modern computing needs. It wasn't hugely successful, but it was pretty influential.

Jannik Heidemann

2y↑1

Maybe ⍼ is just a character to detect plagiarism, similar to the paper towns that Wendover Productions made a video about a few years back.

Ognižar «Ogniã» Gordov

2y↑392

In the Japanese encoding system JIS X 0208, there are a few kanji encoded that are not found in any kanji dictionary. These are commonly known as “ghost characters” (yuurei moji 幽霊文字).
The standard acknowledged the sources for these characters, but later people were unable to find these characters in the original sources. Later it was found that the encoded forms were wrong, and the forms that were supposed to be taken, were not encoded. Despite this, one character remains truly elusive, 55-27 彁 (U+5F41), its sources were not acknowledged and no results were found after extensive research. The character 彁 has since then become an internet phenomenon.

Caio Lima Netto

2y↑1

But at least, as with any kanji, it is made of radicals so you can actually know what it means. That is the whole basis of the radical system, you might not know the exact word it represents, but you can get what it means by the radicals.

Ognižar «Ogniã» Gordov

2y↑6

@Haruhi Suzumiya Unicode says the radical for both 妛 and 𡚴 is 女。

Haruhi Suzumiya

2y↑1

@RaymondHng and mountain and girl make that above kanji but which is the radical?

Ognižar «Ogniã» Gordov

2y↑27

@RaymondHng An Asahi Shimbun commentator claimed that he found 彁 in a paper from 1923, in the term「埼玉自彁會」，but it was picked up wrongly by the digitization program, and was supposed to be 彊 (see 自彊術). Now for sorting and convenience, the character 彁 is arbitrarily assigned the reading “ka” (from 哥) or “sei”.

RaymondHng

2y↑10

@Ognižar «Ogniã» Gordov 彁 is composed of the 弓 radical for bow (weapon) and 哥 for older brother.

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Lara S

2y↑1

"...who seemingly just let anyone register a symbol for five bucks." Well, per the document you showed, anywhere from $5 to $50, depending on complexity.

Krishna Sharma

That symbol means everything on either the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th quadrant is invalid and those values to be neglected. Simpler terms, in negative numbers the proposition doesn't hold true and data provided is only valid for the positive X and Y values. So, do not extrapolate the function on negative quadrants.

Atel

I could see it as a way to represent a third axis (Z axis) since having a third line identical to X and Y would just look like a weird sideways y or something - in other words, it would be easily confused.
And since trying to add extra detail like dashes or entire included symbols would make the symbol unnecessarily complex, having an arrow to signify “the third axis” was the most simplistic possible solution.
Basically just Axis X and Y as the angle, arrow designating axis Z.

Though I’ve got no clue what it is for sure so don’t quote me here.

LilacDoe

2y↑10

My grandfather was actually the person. On his deathbed he told me quite a few of his secrets. It was shocking the things I never knew about him, but when he got to unicode he was telling me about what it was supposed to mean. "Now listen sweetie, I want you to be the only one who knows what that is actually about. When your grandmother and I were visiting..." and then he died.

Leon Day

Now I really want to use ⍼ to delineate or describe "Escape" as a symbol.

bubbleboy

This guy's humor is so unique I love it

Jorge Lima

The lightning shape means electricity, the vertical bar is the conductor and the horizontal line is "ground". The symbol translates as "this is the circuit that goes to ground", similar to ⏚

MattShnoop

Worth noting that 'Angzarr' comes from it's HTML escape code: " &angzarr; " -- ANGled Zigzag ARRow. Just like how there's → and ← for right and left arrow. :)

Klein

2y↑381

I almost forgot about this symbol! I actually registered it for a few bucks way back then. The reason was that I wanted a half-satirical half-informative content creator on a then non-existent medium to wonder about its meaning in about five minutes.

Kris Johnstone

2y↑5

You joke, but I'd do something like that just for fun.
I've already created a bunch of random crap I specifically created to confuse people many MANY years in the future long after I am dead. (although knowing me quantum computing will invalidate my efforts!)

Golf Nut

2y↑16

But... but... but... I registered the code way back then. The reason was so someone could post in a non-existent future forum claiming the reason they created it was they wanted a half-satirical half-informative content creator on a then non-existent medium to wonder about its meaning in about five minutes.

I was successful!!! Too bad I had to wait this long.

Peter Houle

2y↑10

visionary

madbruv

2y↑11

proof

Life4YourGames

I vote for this to be the new ONE AND ONLY line break character!

Mister Mushroom

2y↑2

By far the greatest Unicode character: 𒍼

Pierre Villemaire-Brooks

If I had to guess , I would say it means "BOTTOMLINE", as in a programming code to jump at the last line , but there may already be another symbol for that meaning.

Trent Brown

2y↑1

The chaos magic sigil you mentioned is older than 2004 - it was used on the Occult Forums message board before that.

P. Wingert

isn't it taken to mean summon hero from another reality and deposit them in the magic circle and start him on building a harem of OP females? (The isekai symbol is how it is read)?🍰🍰

ngwoo

2y↑316

I've found a few references to Dutch economics textbooks using it to denote the Y-axis continuing below the X-axis.

Big Body Biggolo 9301

It does look a lot like the Y & X axis i had in my Dutch economic books as well, but who knows if that actually means anything

Spaghetti is Yummy.

Give the me Sources, then!

Antediluvian Romance

@ElectariumTunic With the exception that maths is a stricter convention than natural language. If there's an arrow, it must mean something.

ElectariumTunic

@Antediluvian Romance Neither is it necessary to mirror or vertically move a quation mark, but „x“was and is still the correct way in many places

Antediluvian Romance

@ElectariumTunic For a graph shortening, an arrow wouldn't be necessary at all.

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Antonio Jose Quintanar

I do not know the real meaning of the symbol, but I would use for two situations it really fits:

1 In Electronic Osciloscopic to reference to the y exis signal.
2 In 3d mathematical functions, to refer to functions with x and z variables, so the plot would be in the plane marke by the symbol.

Would you agree´?

James Singer

It means "faulty logic" for "if/then" statements. We ended up just using "error" but this was supposed to replace that. No one knew what that meant, so we all keep using "error."

god i love rab track number 4

i like how every person in this comment section has their own theory and they all seem as equally as plausible bc everyone makes good points

Steve Cheney

The great thing about the angzar is that, because it has no established meaning, no one can get made at you for calling them a total ⍼.

Timofey Prikhodko

2y↑441

this video is so ⍼ and ⍼. and, what's most important, ⍼ ⍼

Michael Andrejco

⍼?

Equilibrum

2y↑2

i think its ⍼aezhaer⍼izhiande⍼ong.

Harrie Hausenman

2y↑3

Totally ⍼ing.

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@satakrion kryptomortis lol ⍼

Del S

2y↑3

So true, so ⍼

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Peter Paradis

The downward zigzag indicates a contradiction. The right angle is used to specify that an angle is 90 degrees. The symbol could be used in schematics to identify imperfect right angles.

user.equalto.Null

Hey HAI, a commenter on this vid has an explanation: It's a dissused electrical engineering symbol used to denote the load placed on a circuit. Early computing used it as a heat management design tolerance, and it might have been native to Germany/Switzerland.

TheFanBoy

I can relate to that unicode character: its existence has a meaning, but nobody knows what.

Harris Syed

it may be related to stocks since a chart with an arrow line makes sense for stock related communication specifically since new math notation would have been more widely spread and documented

Joe Generic

2y↑420

Love these nerdy videos, you earn this ⍼

Anthony Turtle

My first thought, when I saw it, how do I get it on my mobile, but no. The second thought, on computer generated drawings, when what looks like a right angle isn't 90°, this character could highlight it.

Vigilant Cosmic Penguin

Well said. ⍼.

Viktor Bönnemark

2y↑11

@Bayoll it's easy, watch: ⍼

Bayoll

2y↑4

How did you that‽

xSKIDWARDx

We'll, let's decide the logic through comparison. The 90° angle represents square measurement. Squares are carpenter tools known as a triangle, because opposite polarity would mean a square is two triangles to make 4 total 90° points from 2 sides from 1 object. The lightning represents electricity. So all in all, it is a measurement icon which represents how to measure electricity based upon the amount times it splits off as a branch. Think branches because when lightning hits a tree branch, the entire set of connections is severed. This is how breakers function to avoid the entire network of connections from malfunctioning if one are goes down. 1 breaker box, 2 areas of polarity (+) (-) and how much power is diluted becomes 4 connections for a dual-connection. Disguised as the same thing with different quantities

Rade-Blunner

"Learning hard things is hard and doing hard things is hard..."
I guess we can include the pronunciation of "sigil" in this.

Game Wizard

Reading files between computers prior to the 90's wasn't difficult if those were text files all using ASCII. The biggest obstacle with reading files between platforms back then was disk formats. There was also no standard operating system until the PC platform with DOS and Windows became dominant. (Apple has never been dominant until smartphones came along)

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