U+000D "CR" CARRIAGE RETURN Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
CR
U+000D "CR" CARRIAGE RETURN is a control character inherited from early teletype and typewriter technology, originally designed to move the printing carriage back to the beginning of the same line. In digital text, it is primarily used to signal a line break, often paired with a line feed (U+000A) in classic Mac OS and Windows systems to create a new line. Its primary function in modern computing is to return the cursor or insertion point to the leftmost column of the current line without advancing to the next line, though its specific interpretation can vary depending on the operating system or application context.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+000D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Carriage Return (Cr) |
| Block | Basic Latin |
| General Category | Control |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Paragraph Separator |
| Alias | CARRIAGE RETURN (control) CR (abbreviation) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 
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| UTF-8 Encoding | 0x0D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x000D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000000D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u000d |