U+211E "℞" Prescription Take Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
℞
U+211E "℞" Prescription Take is a typographical symbol originating from the Latin abbreviation for the verb "recipe," meaning "take," and has been used for centuries in medical contexts to denote a physician's prescription or medical order. It is often found at the beginning of prescriptions, directing the pharmacist or patient to take the specified medications or treatments as instructed. The symbol is encoded in the Unicode standard under the "Letterlike Symbols" block, reflecting its historical and practical role in documenting pharmaceutical directions distinct from standard punctuation or letters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+211E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Prescription Take |
| Block | Letterlike Symbols |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ℞ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ℞ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x84 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x211E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000211E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u211e |
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 | Alphabetic |
| 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 |