U+2445 "⑅" Ocr Bow Tie Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
⑅
U+2445 "⑅" Ocr Bow Tie is a specialized symbol belonging to the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) block, which was designed to encode characters used in machine reading of text. This particular glyph resembles a bow tie and was originally intended to represent a specific mark or signal within OCR systems, where it might indicate a break, separation, or misrecognition in scanned or printed documents. Despite its niche origin, the character has found occasional use in modern digital contexts as a decorative or whimsical typographic element, often added to text for visual flair rather than for its original technological function.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2445 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ocr Bow Tie |
| 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 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2445 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002445 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2445 |
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 |