U+20DE "⃞" Combining Enclosing Square Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+20DE "⃞" Combining Enclosing Square is a combining diacritical mark designed to be placed over a preceding base character, where it renders as a square that visually encloses that character, serving in typographic contexts such as mathematical notation, technical documentation, or specialized annotation to highlight or group a single symbol without altering its own form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+20DE |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Combining Enclosing Square |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Enclosing Square |
| Block | Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols |
| General Category | Enclosing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⃞ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⃞ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x83 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x20DE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000020DE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u20de |