# How to type this symbol?

I would like to type the following character, which looks like a greater sign with two bars, but I don't know how. I have a link to the Wikipedia page as well as its image.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sori_(music)

• \newcommand*\sori{{\ooalign{$>$\cr\hidewidth$\parallel$\hidewidth\cr}}} – Manuel Nov 1 '17 at 19:54
• do you check tug.ctan.org/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf, if this symbol exist? if not, then you need to compose it ... – Zarko Nov 1 '17 at 19:56
• Do you need it as a math operator or a plain text symbol? – CarLaTeX Nov 1 '17 at 19:58
• As this is a music symbol, do you need this to work with, say, Lilypond or musixtex? That might help to inform the answers that you might receive. – sgmoye Nov 1 '17 at 20:15
• @Miladiouss complain to the Unicode consortium, maybe while they're making other food Emojis they can add it. – Nick T Nov 1 '17 at 23:24

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{stackengine,graphicx}
\newcommand\sori{\stackengine{1pt}{\ensuremath{>}}{\rotatebox[origin=c]{90}{%
\scalebox{-1.3}[1]{\textsl{=}}}}{O}{c}{F}{F}{L}}
\begin{document}
A\sori B
\end{document}


A picture mode implementation:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pict2e,picture}

\makeatletter
\newlength\sori@ht
\newlength\sori@wd
\newlength\sori@thin
\newlength\sori@thick
\DeclareRobustCommand{\textsori}{%
\begingroup
\sbox\z@{$\sharp$}%
\setlength{\sori@ht}{\dimexpr\ht\z@+\dp\z@}%
\setlength{\sori@wd}{\wd\z@}%
\setlength{\sori@thin}{\dimexpr\sori@wd/15}%
\setlength{\sori@thick}{\dimexpr\sori@wd/6}%
\setlength{\unitlength}{\sori@wd}%
\raisebox{-\dp\z@}{\text@sori}%
\endgroup
}
\newcommand{\text@sori}{%
\begin{picture}(\sori@wd,\sori@ht)
\roundcap
\linethickness{\sori@thin}
\put(4\sori@thin,0){\line(0,1){\dimexpr\sori@ht-2\sori@thin}}
\put(11\sori@thin,2\sori@thin){\line(0,1){\dimexpr\sori@ht-2\sori@thin}}
\buttcap
\linethickness{\sori@thick}
\polyline(0.13333,0.4)(0.86667,1.075)(0.13333,1.75)
\end{picture}%
}
\providecommand{\textsharp}{\ensuremath{\sharp}}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\textsharp\textsori

\end{document}


\newcommand*\sori{\ifmmode\mathrel\fi{\ooalign{$>$\cr\hidewidth$\parallela$\hidewidth\cr}}}


With that command you can use \sori in text mode (in case you wanted to use it in text mode) and in case your intended use is in math mode it will give \mathrel spacing.

If you need it to scale in subscripts we can do that easily.

• an ordinary \parallel will have both vertical bars with the bottom sitting on the same horizontal "baseline". on the sori symbol. the bottom of the two bars follows the slant of the lower arm of the "greater than" sign. – barbara beeton Nov 1 '17 at 21:10