␣
Technical information
| Symbol | ␣ | |
| Name | Open box | |
| Unicode number | U+2423 | |
| Category | Space symbols | |
| Description | The Unicode character ␣, or U+2423, is known as the "Open Box". It belongs to the "Control Pictures" block and falls under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a graphic representation of an open box. It is traditionally used in typography and computing to indicate a space character in a visual manner, particularly in contexts where whitespace might otherwise be invisible or unclear. 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) | ␣ | |
| HTML Entity (named) | ␣ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%90%A3 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x90 0xA3 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10010000:10100011 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x2423 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00002423 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u2423" | |
| CSS Code | \2423 | |
| JavaScript | "\u2423" | |
| Perl | \x{2423} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u2423" | |
| Python 3 | \u2423 | |
| Ruby | \u{2423} |
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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100
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200
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300
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400
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500
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600
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700
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800
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900
HTML Forms and Input
input
disabled input
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select
button
button
Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>␣</span>
span {
content: "\2423";
}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