U+235D "⍝" Apl Functional Symbol Up Shoe Jot Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⍝
U+235D "⍝" Apl Functional Symbol Up Shoe Jot is a glyph used exclusively within the APL programming language, where it serves as the "comment" symbol. In APL, any text following this character on a line is ignored by the interpreter, allowing programmers to annotate their code for clarity and documentation. Its distinctive shape combines an upward-facing shoe (a mathematical symbol for "not" or "up tack") with a jot (a small circle), and together, this visual design is both functional and emblematic of APL's highly symbolic, notation-based syntax.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+235D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Apl Functional Symbol Up Shoe Jot |
| 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 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x235D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000235D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u235d |
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 |