U+2679 RECYCLING SYMBOL FOR TYPE-7 PLASTICS

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Decimal / Nº
9849
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+2679, officially named RECYCLING SYMBOL FOR TYPE-7 PLASTICS, was introduced in Unicode version 3.2. It is part of the Misc Symbols 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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9849 Copied!
UTF-8 E2 99 B9 Copied!
UTF-16 26 79 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 26 79 Copied!
URL-Quoted %E2%99%B9 Copied!
HTML hex reference ♹ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'2679' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u2679 Copied!
C and C++ \u2679 Copied!
C# \u2679 Copied!
CSS \002679 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(9849) Copied!
Go \u2679 Copied!
JavaScript \u2679 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{2679} Copied!
JSON \u2679 Copied!
Java \u2679 Copied!
Lua \u{2679} Copied!
Matlab char(9849) Copied!
Perl \x{2679} Copied!
PHP \u{2679} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\2679' Copied!
PowerShell `u{2679} Copied!
Python \u2679 Copied!
Ruby \u{2679} Copied!
Rust \u{2679} Copied!