Technical information

Symbol
NameSymbol for newline
Unicode numberU+2424
CategoryASCII Character SymbolsGraphic pictures for control codes
DescriptionThe Unicode character "␤", or U+2424, is known as the "Symbol for Newline". It is part of the "Control Pictures" block and is categorized under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is typically used in the context of text and data formatting to represent a line break or newline character. While not typically displayed in end-user text, it is used in contexts where control characters are visually represented. It's a symbolic representation of the action of starting a new line in text data.

Encoding

HTML Entity␤
HTML Entity (hex)␤
URL Escape Code%E2%90%A4
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x90 0xA4
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10010000:10100100
UTF-160x2424
UTF-320x00002424

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u2424"
CSS Code\2424
JavaScript"\u2424"
Perl\x{2424}
Python 2u"\u2424"
Python 3\u2424
Ruby\u{2424}

Preview

This Unicode character looks like this ␤ in sentence and in bold like this and in italic like this .

Font size:

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48px
72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#9252;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\2424";
}

The symbol in different fonts

-apple-system
Apple Color Emoji
Arial
BlinkMacSystemFont
Courier New
Georgia
Droid Sans
Helvetica
Noto Sans
Oxygen
Roboto
"Segoe UI"
sans-serif
Segoe UI Emoji
Segoe UI Symbol
system-ui
Times New Roman
Ubuntu
Verdana

References