Technical information

Symbol
NameControl sequence introducer
Unicode numberU+009B
CategoryLatin-1 Supplement1. C1 controls
DescriptionThe Unicode character U+009B is known as the "Control Sequence Introducer". It belongs to the "C0 Controls" block and falls under the "Other, Control" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a non-printing control code that was originally intended for initiating a sequence of additional control characters. In programming, control characters like the "Control Sequence Introducer" were often used to control devices such as printers, terminals, or other peripheral devices, but in modern systems, their usage is less common. The specific functionality 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%23155%3B
UTF-8 (hex)0x26 0x23 0x31 0x35 0x35 0x3B
UTF-8 (binary)1001100010001100110001001101010011010100111011
UTF-160x009B
UTF-320x0000009B

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u009B"
CSS Code\009B
JavaScript"\u009B"
Perl\x{009B}
Python 2u"\u009B"
Python 3\u009B
Ruby\u{009B}

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>&#155;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\009B";
}

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