U+232B ERASE TO THE LEFT

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Decimal / Nº
9003
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Other Neutral
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+232B, officially named ERASE TO THE LEFT, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Misc Technical block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane. Previously, it was also referred to as DELETE TO THE LEFT KEY.

Categorized technically as a Other Symbol, this character typically falls under the Common script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a 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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9003 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 8C AB Copied!
UTF-16 23 2B Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 23 2B Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%8C%AB Copied!
HTML hex reference ⌫ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'232B' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u232B Copied!
C and C++ \u232b Copied!
C# \u232b Copied!
CSS \00232B Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(9003) Copied!
Go \u232b Copied!
JavaScript \u232B Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{232b} Copied!
JSON \u232B Copied!
Java \u232B Copied!
Lua \u{232B} Copied!
Matlab char(9003) Copied!
Perl \x{232B} Copied!
PHP \u{232b} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\232B' Copied!
PowerShell `u{232B} Copied!
Python \u232b Copied!
Ruby \u{232b} Copied!
Rust \u{232b} Copied!