U+240C "␌" Symbol for Form Feed Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
␌
U+240C "␌" Symbol for Form Feed is a visual representation of the ASCII control character known as form feed, which historically instructed printers to advance the paper to the top of the next page. This symbolic glyph, depicted as the letters "FF" inside a rounded rectangle, is used in text and coding contexts to make the invisible control character visible for debugging, documentation, or display purposes. It belongs to the Unicode block "Control Pictures," which provides graphic symbols for non printable control codes, helping developers and analysts identify and interpret these characters in data streams or source code without altering the underlying digital information.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+240C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Symbol for Form Feed |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Graphic for Form Feed |
| Block | Control Pictures |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ␌ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ␌ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x90 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x240C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000240C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u240c |
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 |