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

Code Point U+2429
Version Added 16.0
Name Symbol for Delete Medium Shade Form
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 0xA9
UTF-16 Encoding 0x2429
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00002429
C/C++/Java Escape \u2429

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