U+2443 "⑃" Ocr Inverted Fork Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⑃
U+2443 "⑃" Ocr Inverted Fork is a specialized symbol from the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) block, designed for use in machine-readable text recognition systems. It represents an inverted fork shape, which historically served as a control or formatting marker in OCR fonts, often used to indicate specific alignment or segmentation instructions for scanning equipment. Though rare in modern plain text and primarily of interest to font historians or digital archivists, this character remains a part of the Unicode standard to preserve legacy encoding systems and facilitate accurate representation of historical OCR documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2443 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ocr Inverted 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 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2443 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002443 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2443 |
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 |