U+241F "␟" Symbol for Unit Separator Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+241F "␟" Symbol for Unit Separator is a visual representation of the Unit Separator control character, which originated in the ASCII standard and was part of a set of characters used to separate information into distinct units or fields in data streams. This specific symbol, depicted as the letters "US" inside a dotted box or as a short vertical bar, was historically employed in telecommunications and early computing to mark boundaries between logical groups of data, such as in tape-driven or serial transmission systems. While the control character itself (U+001F) remains relevant in modern protocols like the Delimiter-Separated Values format, the graphic symbol "␟" is primarily used for debugging, documentation, or educational purposes to make the invisible control code visible in text editors or diagrams.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
␟ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
␟ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE2 0x90 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x241F |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000241F |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u241f |
Unicode Properties