U+3037 "〷" Ideographic Telegraph Line Feed Separator Symbol Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+3037 "〷" Ideographic Telegraph Line Feed Separator Symbol is a specialized typographic mark originating from historical telegraph and teleprinter systems used in East Asia, particularly in Japan and China. It represents a control character for line feed separation in coded ideographic telegraph messages, functioning as a delimiter between lines of text in a stream of Chinese characters or kanji. While rarely used in modern digital communication, it remains encoded in Unicode to support the accurate conversion and preservation of legacy telegraphic data, and it is classified under the block "CJK Symbols and Punctuation" as a symbol with specific, non-linguistic formatting purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3037 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Ideographic Telegraph Line Feed Separator Symbol |
| Block | CJK Symbols and Punctuation |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 〷 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 〷 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x80 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3037 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003037 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3037 |
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 | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Bopomofo Hangul Han Hiragana Katakana |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |