U+0094 "CCH" CANCEL CHARACTER Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

CCH

U+0094 "CCH" CANCEL CHARACTER is a control character originally defined in the C0 set of ISO/IEC 6429 and later adopted into Unicode for compatibility with legacy telecommunication and data transmission protocols. Its primary purpose was to indicate that the preceding character or a specified sequence of characters in a data stream should be cancelled or ignored, serving as a form of error correction or instruction to discard transmitted information. In modern computing, this character has no standard visual representation and typically does not appear in regular text processing, as it is classified as a control code rather than a printable glyph. Its usage is largely obsolete except in specific historical or specialized systems that rely on older communication standards.

General Properties

Code Point	U+0094
Version Added	1.1
Unicode 1.0 Name	Cancel Character
Block	Latin-1 Supplement
General Category	Control
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Boundary Neutral
Alias	CANCEL CHARACTER (control) CCH (abbreviation)

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
HTML Hex Encoding
UTF-8 Encoding	0xC2 0x94
UTF-16 Encoding	0x0094
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00000094
C/C++/Java Escape	\u0094

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	Combining Mark
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Common
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Cluster Break	Control
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other