Technical information

Symbol
NamePartial line forward
Unicode numberU+008B
CategoryLatin-1 Supplement1. C1 controls
DescriptionThe Unicode character U+008B is known as the "Partial Line Forward". It belongs to the "C1 Controls and Latin-1 Supplement" block and falls under the "Other, Control" category in the Unicode standard. As a control character, it does not have a graphical representation but is used to control certain aspects of textual data processing. Specifically, in its original usage, it would move the cursor forward part of a line. However, in modern computing environments, it may not have a consistent or meaningful use. The specific functionality and appearance of this character can depend on the system and application it's being used in.

Encoding

HTML Entity‹
HTML Entity (hex)‹
URL Escape Code%26%23139%3B
UTF-8 (hex)0x26 0x23 0x31 0x33 0x39 0x3B
UTF-8 (binary)1001100010001100110001001100110011100100111011
UTF-160x008B
UTF-320x0000008B

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u008B"
CSS Code\008B
JavaScript"\u008B"
Perl\x{008B}
Python 2u"\u008B"
Python 3\u008B
Ruby\u{008B}

Preview

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

Font size:

12px
16px
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28px
36px
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>&#139;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\008B";
}

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