U+2429 "" Symbol for Delete Medium Shade Form Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+2429 "" Symbol for Delete Medium Shade Form is a specialized control picture character used primarily in technical documentation and data visualization to represent the non printable delete or erase function associated with medium shaded graphical elements. It belongs to the Control Pictures block of Unicode, which provides symbolic representations of ASCII and C0 control codes for clear communication in text. This particular symbol denotes the deletion of a medium intensity shaded area, often relevant in contexts like terminal emulators, character cell graphics, or legacy screen editing systems where shading levels indicate different data states. The character itself is typically displayed as a graphic symbol rather than rendered as a visible character, serving as a visual shorthand for an operation that removes intermediate shading from a display.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
␩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
␩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE2 0x90 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x2429 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00002429 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u2429 |
Unicode Properties