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U.S. English - I am trying to figure out what a symbol of a rectangle with a center vertical line through it stands for. It is used in this context (with the ? substituting for it):

$2/? to as high as $8/?

The amounts in question most likely would br either be $2,000 - $8,000 or $20,000 - $80,000.

Thanks!

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1

I have no idea what you are referring to. Is it possible to provide a link to a page where it can be seen?

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2

All I can think of is that zero is sometimes written as an 0 with a diagonal line through it, to distinguish it from a letter O in a serial number or the like. Not what your description sounds like, though.

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3

And capital phi -- Φ -- doesn't sound like it either. Can you post a picture?

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4

Sorry, no picture, this is on someone's hand written notes.

But, imagine if the symbol that # 3 drew were a rectangle, with the line going through the middle ( the center line is taller and overlaps both top and bottom.)

Or imagine the 0 with the slash through it except that the 0 is a rectangle and the slash is not diagonal but straight up and down.

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5

Based on your original post, I imagined almost exactly what you are describing at #4 except that I didn't know that the vertical line passed through both the top and bottom of the rectangle. Even so, I cannot tell you what the symbol means; it's totally unfamiliar to me.

Thanks for the more complete description. I hope that someone else will recognize the symbol and tell you its meaning.

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6

So like this: 中 ? (That's a Chinese character, but it sounds like what OP is describing, except that perhaps the OP's rectangle is larger.)

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7

Exactly like that # 6.

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8

In Mandarin, that is a "ta"(rhymes with far). It means big, or large , depending on the context.

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9

Um, no. In Mandarin, 中 is "zhong". It means such things as "center" and "middle," depending on the context.

Big is 大, and it is pronounced "da," not "ta."

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