U+235E "⍞" Apl Functional Symbol Quote Quad Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⍞
U+235E "⍞" Apl Functional Symbol Quote Quad is a specialized typographical glyph used within the APL programming language to represent the "quote quad" function, which serves as a general-purpose input/output mechanism. It visually combines the shape of a quad (a hollow square) with a quotation mark, indicating its role in reading or writing data from the terminal or external files. This symbol is part of the wide range of APL-specific characters that were designed to concisely express array-oriented operations. In modern computing, it remains a distinctive element of APL's unique character set, often requiring specific font support to display correctly.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+235E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Apl Functional Symbol Quote Quad |
| 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 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x235E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000235E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u235e |
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 |