Technical information
| Symbol |  | |
| Name | Symbol for newline | |
| Unicode number | U+2424 | |
| Category | ASCII Character SymbolsGraphic pictures for control codes | |
| Description | The Unicode character "", or U+2424, is known as the "Symbol for Newline". It is part of the "Control Pictures" block and is categorized under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is typically used in the context of text and data formatting to represent a line break or newline character. While not typically displayed in end-user text, it is used in contexts where control characters are visually represented. It's a symbolic representation of the action of starting a new line in text data. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ␤ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ␤ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%90%A4 | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x90 0xA4 | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10010000:10100100 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x2424 | |
| UTF-32 | 0x00002424 |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u2424" | |
| CSS Code | \2424 | |
| JavaScript | "\u2424" | |
| Perl | \x{2424} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u2424" | |
| Python 3 | \u2424 | |
| Ruby | \u{2424} |
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
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>␤</span>
span {
content: "\2424";
}The symbol in different fonts

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