U+2440 OCR HOOK

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Decimal / Nº
9280
General Category
Block
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+2440, officially named OCR HOOK, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the OCR 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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9280 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 91 80 Copied!
UTF-16 24 40 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 24 40 Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%91%80 Copied!
HTML hex reference ⑀ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'2440' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u2440 Copied!
C and C++ \u2440 Copied!
C# \u2440 Copied!
CSS \002440 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(9280) Copied!
Go \u2440 Copied!
JavaScript \u2440 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{2440} Copied!
JSON \u2440 Copied!
Java \u2440 Copied!
Lua \u{2440} Copied!
Matlab char(9280) Copied!
Perl \x{2440} Copied!
PHP \u{2440} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\2440' Copied!
PowerShell `u{2440} Copied!
Python \u2440 Copied!
Ruby \u{2440} Copied!
Rust \u{2440} Copied!