U+203B REFERENCE MARK

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Decimal / Nº
8251
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Other Neutral
East Asian Width
ambiguous
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+203B, officially named REFERENCE MARK, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Punctuation block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Other Punctuation, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has ambiguous in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Other Neutral character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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8251 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 80 BB Copied!
UTF-16 20 3B Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 20 3B Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%80%BB Copied!
HTML hex reference ※ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'203B' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u203B Copied!
C and C++ \u203b Copied!
C# \u203b Copied!
CSS \00203B Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(8251) Copied!
Go \u203b Copied!
JavaScript \u203B Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{203b} Copied!
JSON \u203B Copied!
Java \u203B Copied!
Lua \u{203B} Copied!
Matlab char(8251) Copied!
Perl \x{203B} Copied!
PHP \u{203b} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\203B' Copied!
PowerShell `u{203B} Copied!
Python \u203b Copied!
Ruby \u{203b} Copied!
Rust \u{203b} Copied!