U+1F5DC "🗜" Compression Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🗜
U+1F5DC "🗜" Compression is a pictographic symbol depicting a mechanical vice or clamp, often used to represent the concept of compressing or squeezing data or physical objects. It belongs to the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block and was introduced in Unicode 7.0 to provide a visual metaphor for reduction in size or pressure. In digital contexts, the character can denote compression algorithms, file archiving, or the physical act of pressing materials together.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F5DC |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Compression |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🗜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🗜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x97 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDDDC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F5DC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udddc |
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 | Ideographic |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Common |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |
| Emoji | Yes |
| Extended Pictographic | Yes |