U+241D "␝" Symbol for Group Separator Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
␝
U+241D "␝" Symbol for Group Separator is one of the graphic symbols in the Control Pictures block, representing the ASCII control character Group Separator (GS), which carries the hexadecimal value 1D. This character was originally used in data transmission protocols to logically separate groups of data, such as sections of a file or distinct records, functioning as a structural delimiter between the end of a subgroup and the beginning of the next higher-level logical unit. In modern computing, it appears primarily in documentation, debugging tools, or legacy system interfaces where it visually denotes the presence of this nonprinting control code.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+241D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Symbol for Group Separator |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Graphic for Group Separator |
| 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 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x241D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000241D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u241d |
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 |