U+2384 "⎄" Composition Symbol Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⎄
U+2384 "⎄" Composition Symbol is a graphical character used in the context of technical documentation and user interfaces, particularly related to keyboard input methods and text composition. It represents a generic composition key or function on certain keyboards, often associated with the Compose key on systems like Linux or other environments that allow users to create special characters and accented letters by pressing a sequence of multiple keys. This symbol serves as a visual cue or placeholder to indicate where composition of a character or symbol will occur, helping users understand the process of combining multiple keystrokes to produce a single, non-standard glyph.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2384 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Composition Symbol |
| Block | Miscellaneous Technical |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⎄ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⎄ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x8E 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2384 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002384 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2384 |
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 | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |