Technical information

Symbol
NameSymbol for group separator
Unicode numberU+241D
CategoryASCII Character SymbolsGraphic pictures for control codes
DescriptionThe Unicode character ␝, or U+241D, is known as "Symbol for Group Separator". It belongs to the "Control Pictures" block and is categorized under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This symbol is a graphical representation of the group separator character, which is a control character used to delimit groups of digits for legibility. It's most commonly used in contexts where data needs to be structured in a specific manner for clear understanding or manipulation. The visual representation helps users identify the presence of this normally invisible control character.

Encoding

HTML Entity␝
HTML Entity (hex)␝
URL Escape Code%E2%90%9D
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x90 0x9D
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10010000:10011101
UTF-160x241D
UTF-320x0000241D

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u241D"
CSS Code\241D
JavaScript"\u241D"
Perl\x{241D}
Python 2u"\u241D"
Python 3\u241D
Ruby\u{241D}

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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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>&#9245;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\241D";
}

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