U+240F SYMBOL FOR SHIFT IN

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Decimal / Nº
9231
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+240F, officially named SYMBOL FOR SHIFT IN, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Control Pictures block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane. Previously, it was also referred to as GRAPHIC FOR SHIFT IN.

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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9231 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 90 8F Copied!
UTF-16 24 0F Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 24 0F Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%90%8F Copied!
HTML hex reference ␏ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'240F' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u240F Copied!
C and C++ \u240f Copied!
C# \u240f Copied!
CSS \00240F Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(9231) Copied!
Go \u240f Copied!
JavaScript \u240F Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{240f} Copied!
JSON \u240F Copied!
Java \u240F Copied!
Lua \u{240F} Copied!
Matlab char(9231) Copied!
Perl \x{240F} Copied!
PHP \u{240f} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\240F' Copied!
PowerShell `u{240F} Copied!
Python \u240f Copied!
Ruby \u{240f} Copied!
Rust \u{240f} Copied!