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