U+2416 SYMBOL FOR SYNCHRONOUS IDLE

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Decimal / Nº
9238
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+2416, officially named SYMBOL FOR SYNCHRONOUS IDLE, 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 SYNCHRONOUS IDLE.

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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9238 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 90 96 Copied!
UTF-16 24 16 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 24 16 Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%90%96 Copied!
HTML hex reference ␖ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'2416' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u2416 Copied!
C and C++ \u2416 Copied!
C# \u2416 Copied!
CSS \002416 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(9238) Copied!
Go \u2416 Copied!
JavaScript \u2416 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{2416} Copied!
JSON \u2416 Copied!
Java \u2416 Copied!
Lua \u{2416} Copied!
Matlab char(9238) Copied!
Perl \x{2416} Copied!
PHP \u{2416} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\2416' Copied!
PowerShell `u{2416} Copied!
Python \u2416 Copied!
Ruby \u{2416} Copied!
Rust \u{2416} Copied!