Symbol for Backspace ␈
Symbol Meaning
Symbol for Backspace. Control Pictures.
The symbol “Symbol for Backspace” is included in the “Graphic pictures for control codes” subblock of the “Control Pictures” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
| Unicode Name | Symbol for Backspace |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Control Pictures |
| Unicode Subblock | Graphic pictures for control codes |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 2408 |
| Simple case change | 2408 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 90 88 | 226 144 136 | 14848136 | 11100010 10010000 10001000 |
| UTF-16BE | 24 08 | 36 8 | 9224 | 00100100 00001000 |
| UTF-16LE | 08 24 | 8 36 | 2084 | 00001000 00100100 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 24 08 | 0 0 36 8 | 9224 | 00000000 00000000 00100100 00001000 |
| UTF-32LE | 08 24 00 00 | 8 36 0 0 | 136577024 | 00001000 00100100 00000000 00000000 |