U+234B "⍋" Apl Functional Symbol Delta Stile Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⍋
U+234B "⍋" Apl Functional Symbol Delta Stile is a graphic character used in the APL programming language, where it represents the "grade up" or "sort ascending" operation, returning the indices that would sort a numeric array in increasing order. Its visual design resembles an uppercase Greek delta with a vertical line or stile through its apex, and it belongs to the "Miscellaneous Technical" block of Unicode, standardized for representing APL's distinctive symbolic notation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+234B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Apl Functional Symbol Delta Stile |
| Block | Miscellaneous Technical |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⍋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⍋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x8D 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x234B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000234B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u234b |
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 | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |