␖

Technical information

Symbol␖
NameSymbol for synchronous idle
Unicode numberU+2416
CategoryASCII Character SymbolsGraphic pictures for control codes
DescriptionThe Unicode character ␖, or U+2416, is known as the "Symbol for Synchronous Idle". It belongs to the "Control Pictures" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a symbolic representation of the ASCII "synchronous idle" control character, often used in telecommunication protocols to indicate a continuous idle state or a point where synchronisation can take place. As a control picture, it's used to visually represent this non-printing control command. The specific appearance and usage of this character can depend on the system and application it's being used in.

Encoding

HTML Entity␖
HTML Entity (hex)␖
URL Escape Code%E2%90%96
UTF-8 (hex)0xE2 0x90 0x96
UTF-8 (binary)11100010:10010000:10010110
UTF-160x2416
UTF-320x00002416

Source Code

C, C++, and Java"\u2416"
CSS Code\2416
JavaScript"\u2416"
Perl\x{2416}
Python 2u"\u2416"
Python 3\u2416
Ruby\u{2416}

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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12px
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16px
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20px
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px

CSS Property: font-weight

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HTML Forms and Input

input
disabled input
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input-group
select
button
button

Code examples in HTML and CSS

<span>&#9238;</span>

            
span {
    content: "\2416";
}

The symbol in different fonts

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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana

References