U+000A "EOL" END OF LINE Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
EOL
U+000A "EOL" END OF LINE is a control character that signifies the termination or ending of a line of text. It is commonly known as a line feed or newline, and it instructs text processing systems to move the cursor or printing position to the beginning of the next line. This character is fundamental in computing for structuring text into separate lines and is universally used in Unix, Linux, and modern macOS systems, while it is often combined with a carriage return on older Windows platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+000A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Line Feed (Lf) |
| Block | Basic Latin |
| General Category | Control |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Paragraph Separator |
| Alias | END OF LINE (control) EOL (abbreviation) LF (abbreviation) LINE FEED (control) NEW LINE (control) NL (abbreviation) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 
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| UTF-8 Encoding | 0x0A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x000A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000000A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u000a |