U+236A "⍪" Apl Functional Symbol Comma Bar Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+236A "⍪" Apl Functional Symbol Comma Bar is a specialized glyph used in the APL programming language to represent the "Catenate First" or "Laminate" function, depending on its context and the number of operands. Visually, it resembles a comma with a horizontal bar above it, and in APL, it operates on arrays by joining them along their first axis or creating a new first dimension when used dyadically. As part of the APL functional symbols block in Unicode, this character enables precise representation of legacy and modern APL code in digital text, preserving the language's concise symbolic notation for array manipulation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+236A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Apl Functional Symbol Comma Bar |
| 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 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x236A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000236A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u236a |
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 |