Technical information

Symbol
NameReturn symbol
Unicode numberU+23CE
CategoryKeyboard symbols
DescriptionThe Unicode character ⏎, or U+23CE, is known as the "Return Symbol". It is part of the "Miscellaneous Technical" block in the Unicode standard. The symbol is typically used to denote the "return" or "enter" key on keyboards, particularly in contexts where keyboard layouts or specific keystrokes are being illustrated or discussed. It is designed to represent the act of carriage return, a term that originally referred to a mechanism or lever on a typewriter that would cause the carriage moving the paper to return to the start of the next line. In modern computer systems, it's used as a control character to mark the end of a line of text and the beginning of a new one.

Encoding

HTML Entity⏎
HTML Entity (hex)⏎
URL Escape Code%E2%8F%8E
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x8F 0x8E
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10001111:10001110
UTF-160x23CE
UTF-320x000023CE

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u23CE"
CSS Code\23CE
JavaScript"\u23CE"
Perl\x{23CE}
Python 2u"\u23CE"
Python 3\u23CE
Ruby\u{23CE}

Preview

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

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HTML Forms and Input

input
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input-group
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Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#9166;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\23CE";
}

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

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