U+2442 "⑂" Ocr Fork Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⑂
U+2442 "⑂" Ocr Fork is a specialized symbol from the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) block, designed primarily for use in machine-readable text systems and early OCR standards. This character represents a graphical "fork" or bifurcation glyph, historically used in OCR fonts to denote a specific pattern or control function within scanned or processed document data. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that legacy OCR data, such as that from banking or postal sorting equipment, can be reliably encoded and preserved in modern digital text without loss of meaning.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2442 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ocr Fork |
| Block | Optical Character Recognition |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ⑂ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ⑂ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x91 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2442 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002442 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2442 |
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 |