U+008C "PLU" PARTIAL LINE BACKWARD Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
U+008C "PLU" PARTIAL LINE BACKWARD is a control character from the C1 control code set, originally used in older telecommunication and terminal protocols to instruct a device to move the cursor or print head backward by a partial line, typically a fraction of a line height. It resides in the Latin-1 Supplement block and is associated with the name "PARTIAL LINE BACKWARD" for its function, though it is rarely employed in modern text processing systems. As a control character, it does not represent a visible glyph but serves a specific command role in legacy data streams.
General Properties
Code Point
U+008C
Unicode 1.0 Name
Partial Line Backward
Alias
PARTIAL LINE BACKWARD (control)
PARTIAL LINE UP (control)
PLU (abbreviation)
PARTIAL LINE UP (control)
PLU (abbreviation)
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
Œ
HTML Hex Encoding
Œ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xC2 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding
0x008C
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000008C
C/C++/Java Escape
\u008c
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Common