what does this symbol mean?
IEC 60417 A triangle pointing up above a bar

Eject symbol

Eject. A triangle pointing up above a bar ejects a disc, tape or other removable media.

How to read it

The triangle over a bar is the eject symbol, which Unicode encodes as U+23CF and describes as the user-interface symbol to eject media. Older Apple keyboards had a Media Eject key: Apple’s list of Mac keyboard shortcuts from 2017 includes Control with the Media Eject key, which brings up the choice to restart, sleep or shut down.

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