how to create new symbol like shown in figure

Question

I am new to LaTeX. I want to create a new symbol shown as in the figure. Please somebody help me to create this symbol. I am writing my thesis.

Answer 1

A version lighter than using TikZ:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pict2e}

\DeclareRobustCommand{\kumarsymbol}{%
  \begingroup\setlength{\unitlength}{\fontcharht\font`A}%
  \begin{picture}(.5,1)
  \roundcap
  \put(0,1){\line(2,-1){.25}}
  \put(.25,.875){\line(0,-1){.75}}
  \put(.25,.125){\line(2,-1){.25}}
  \end{picture}%
  \endgroup
}

\begin{document}
A\kumarsymbol B

\LARGE A\kumarsymbol B
\end{document}

One can modify the line thickness and the angles in quite an easy way, see the documentation of pict2e.

Answer 2

If you are using pdfTeX, you can draw the symbol using PDF elementary commands and set it as the PDF form (this is like subroutine in PDF, the drawing commands are not repeated at the every instance of the symbol in PDF file).

\def\drawmysymbol{\pdfliteral{q 1 J 0 8 m 3 5 l 3 1 l 6 -2 l S Q}}
\setbox0=\hbox to8bp{\kern1bp\vrule height9bp depth3bp width0bp \drawmysymbol\hss}
\pdfxform0 \mathchardef\mysymbolA=\pdflastxform
\def\mysymbol{\pdfrefxform\mysymbolA}

And the test: here is \mysymbol.

The main point of this method is that you can draw arbitrary symbol (if you know the PDF elementary commands) and you can set it as a character (i.e. the drawing commands are not repeated in the output PDF). Moreover, the argument of \pdfliteral can be copied from the output of Inkscape (EPS format), thus you can create your character by interactive editor.

Answer 3

Please give us more information about the meaning and its usage. I searched the unicode for you and the most similar would be the U+23B1. This symbol is quite curly, but with the font Code222 it could be acceptable. You will have to compile my MWE with Xe- or LuaLaTeX.

I made the symbol applicable for math- and text-mode. Further improvements can be done when having more information.

The symbol is called \rmoustache in unicode-math. You can use this with the font XITS. I commented these lines out, as it is even more curly than the Code2000 version.

% arara: lualatex

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{mathtools}
%\usepackage{unicode-math}
\newcommand*\strangeSymbol{{\fontspec{code2000.ttf}\ensuremath{\text{\symbol{"23B1}}}}}

\begin{document}
\strangeSymbol $\strangeSymbol$
%\setmathfont{XITS Math} % even more curly version
%$\rmoustache$
\end{document}

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If you are using the XITS or Asana Math font, you may produce a symbol in their very style by combining two angle symbols. Very hackish, very hard-coded, very ugly...

% arara: lualatex

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{unicode-math}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}
    \setmathfont{XITS Math}
    \(
    \begin{array}{c}
    \mkern-8.6625mu\reflectbox{\rotatebox{-90}{$\wideangledown$}}\\[-2.2pt]
    \mkern+8.6625mu\rotatebox{90}{$\wideangleup$}
    \end{array}
    \)
    \setmathfont{Asana Math}
    \(
    \begin{array}{c}
    \mkern-3.1425mu\reflectbox{\rotatebox{-90}{$\wideangledown$}}\\[-2.5pt]
    \mkern+3.1425mu\rotatebox{90}{$\wideangleup$}
    \end{array}
    \)
\end{document}

Answer 4

A pretty simple solution can be achieved with the tikz package.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\newcommand\mysymbol{%
  \tikz[scale=.3]{\draw[very thick] (0,0) to ++(330:.5) to ++(0,-1) to ++(330:.5);}%
} 

\begin{document}
Two single \mysymbol and \mysymbol .
\end{document}