U+000C "FF" FORM FEED Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
FF
U+000C "FF" FORM FEED is a control character originally used in text processing to command a printer to advance paper to the top of the next page, effectively creating a page break. In modern digital contexts, it is often treated as a whitespace character and may be used by programmers to separate sections of code or data in files, though its interpretation depends heavily on the specific software or application processing the text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+000C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Form Feed (Ff) |
| Block | Basic Latin |
| General Category | Control |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | White Space |
| Alias | FF (abbreviation) FORM FEED (control) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |  |
| HTML Hex Encoding |  |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0x0C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x000C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000000C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u000c |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Mandatory Break |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Pattern White Space | Yes |
| White Space | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Control |
| Word Break | Newline |
| Sentence Break | Sp |