␢
Technical information
| Symbol | ␢ | |
| Name | Blank symbol | |
| Unicode number | U+2422 | |
| Category | Space symbols | |
| Description | The Unicode character ␢, or U+2422, is known as the "Blank Symbol". It belongs to the "Control Pictures" block and is categorized as "Symbol, Other" in the Unicode standard. The character is visually represented as a rectangle with a horizontal line in the middle. It is used to indicate the presence of a blank space or a whitespace character in a sequence of characters, especially when visualizing these spaces is important, such as in typography or when setting up the layout of a document. The specific appearance and usage of this character can vary based on the context in which it's used. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ␢ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ␢ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%90%A2 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x90 0xA2 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10010000:10100010 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x2422 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00002422 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u2422" | |
| CSS Code | \2422 | |
| JavaScript | "\u2422" | |
| Perl | \x{2422} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u2422" | |
| Python 3 | \u2422 | |
| Ruby | \u{2422} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this ␢ in sentence and in bold like this ␢ and in italic like this ␢.
input-group
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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select
button
button
Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>␢</span>
span {
content: "\2422";
}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