U+2356 APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL DOWNWARDS VANE

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Decimal / Nº
9046
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Left-To-Right
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+2356, officially named APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL DOWNWARDS VANE, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Misc Technical 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 not a composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Left-To-Right character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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9046 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 8D 96 Copied!
UTF-16 23 56 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 23 56 Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%8D%96 Copied!
HTML hex reference ⍖ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'2356' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u2356 Copied!
C and C++ \u2356 Copied!
C# \u2356 Copied!
CSS \002356 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(9046) Copied!
Go \u2356 Copied!
JavaScript \u2356 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{2356} Copied!
JSON \u2356 Copied!
Java \u2356 Copied!
Lua \u{2356} Copied!
Matlab char(9046) Copied!
Perl \x{2356} Copied!
PHP \u{2356} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\2356' Copied!
PowerShell `u{2356} Copied!
Python \u2356 Copied!
Ruby \u{2356} Copied!
Rust \u{2356} Copied!