U+2363 "⍣" Apl Functional Symbol Star Diaeresis Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+2363 "⍣" Apl Functional Symbol Star Diaeresis is a specialized glyph within the APL (A Programming Language) character set, used to denote a specific operator or function in that language. In APL, it typically represents the "power operator" or a variant of the "star" operator combined with a diaeresis (two dots) to modify its behavior, often in a nested or iterative context. This character is part of the "Miscellaneous Technical" block in Unicode, designed to enable precise textual representation of APL code without loss of semantic meaning, and it is not commonly used outside of programming or mathematical notation involving APL.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2363 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Apl Functional Symbol Star Diaeresis |
| 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 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2363 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002363 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2363 |
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 |