U+2302 "⌂" House Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⌂
U+2302 "⌂" House is a graphic symbol representing a simple house shape, often depicted as a square with a triangular roof, and it belongs to the Miscellaneous Technical block of the Unicode standard, which includes various symbols for technical diagrams, computing, and user interface elements. Its primary purpose is to denote a home or start point, especially in contexts like mapping, data visualization, or system navigation, and it was encoded in Unicode 1.1 in 1993, long before the widespread adoption of emoji, making it a precursor to the more decorative house images found in modern digital communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2302 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | House |
| Block | Miscellaneous Technical |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⌂ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⌂ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x8C 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2302 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002302 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2302 |
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 |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |