U+31EF IDEOGRAPHIC DESCRIPTION CHARACTER SUBTRACTION

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Decimal / Nº
12783
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Other Neutral
East Asian Width
wide
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+31EF, officially named IDEOGRAPHIC DESCRIPTION CHARACTER SUBTRACTION, was introduced in Unicode version 15.1. It is part of the CJK Strokes 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 wide 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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12783 Copied!
UTF-8 E3 87 AF Copied!
UTF-16 31 EF Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 31 EF Copied!
URL-Quoted %E3%87%AF Copied!
HTML hex reference ㇯ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'31EF' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u31EF Copied!
C and C++ \u31ef Copied!
C# \u31ef Copied!
CSS \0031EF Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(12783) Copied!
Go \u31ef Copied!
JavaScript \u31EF Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{31ef} Copied!
JSON \u31EF Copied!
Java \u31EF Copied!
Lua \u{31EF} Copied!
Matlab char(12783) Copied!
Perl \x{31EF} Copied!
PHP \u{31ef} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\31EF' Copied!
PowerShell `u{31EF} Copied!
Python \u31ef Copied!
Ruby \u{31ef} Copied!
Rust \u{31ef} Copied!