U+213B FACSIMILE SIGN

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Decimal / Nº
8507
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Other Neutral
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
a compatibility composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+213B, officially named FACSIMILE SIGN, was introduced in Unicode version 4.0. It is part of the Letterlike Symbols block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Other Symbol, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is a compatibility composition and has no designated width 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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8507 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 84 BB Copied!
UTF-16 21 3B Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 21 3B Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%84%BB Copied!
HTML hex reference ℻ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'213B' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u213B Copied!
C and C++ \u213b Copied!
C# \u213b Copied!
CSS \00213B Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(8507) Copied!
Go \u213b Copied!
JavaScript \u213B Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{213b} Copied!
JSON \u213B Copied!
Java \u213B Copied!
Lua \u{213B} Copied!
Matlab char(8507) Copied!
Perl \x{213B} Copied!
PHP \u{213b} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\213B' Copied!
PowerShell `u{213B} Copied!
Python \u213b Copied!
Ruby \u{213b} Copied!
Rust \u{213b} Copied!