U+213B "℻" Facsimile Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
℻
U+213B "℻" Facsimile Sign is a typographic symbol representing a facsimile machine or fax transmission, originating from the need for a standard character to denote fax numbers or fax-related information in digital text. It is encoded in the Letterlike Symbols block of Unicode, designed to resemble a stylized combination of the letters "F" and "A" or a simplified fax machine icon. This character is rarely used in modern contexts due to the decline of fax technology, but it remains available for historical or specialized applications, such as in directory listings or legacy documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+213B |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Facsimile Sign |
| Block | Letterlike Symbols |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "F" U+0046 Latin Capital Letter F "A" U+0041 Latin Capital Letter A "X" U+0058 Latin Capital Letter X |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ℻ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ℻ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x84 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x213B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000213B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u213b |