U+2429 SYMBOL FOR DELETE MEDIUM SHADE FORM

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Decimal / Nº
9257
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+2429, officially named SYMBOL FOR DELETE MEDIUM SHADE FORM, was introduced in Unicode version 16.0. It is part of the Control Pictures 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 Other Neutral character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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9257 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 90 A9 Copied!
UTF-16 24 29 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 24 29 Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%90%A9 Copied!
HTML hex reference ␩ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'2429' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u2429 Copied!
C and C++ \u2429 Copied!
C# \u2429 Copied!
CSS \002429 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(9257) Copied!
Go \u2429 Copied!
JavaScript \u2429 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{2429} Copied!
JSON \u2429 Copied!
Java \u2429 Copied!
Lua \u{2429} Copied!
Matlab char(9257) Copied!
Perl \x{2429} Copied!
PHP \u{2429} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\2429' Copied!
PowerShell `u{2429} Copied!
Python \u2429 Copied!
Ruby \u{2429} Copied!
Rust \u{2429} Copied!